This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE written by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2012

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Is Elitism a Myth? A Study of NYC Specialized High Schools, Bonnie Kong

Three Essays on the Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Employment, Benefit Takeup and Other Labor Market Outcomes, Yun Li

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The Effects of Infrastructure Development and Taxation on Current and Future Earnings, Mukta Mukherjee

2011

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of a Spatial Autoregressive Panel Model with Random Effects, Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

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The Effects of Trade Openness on Per Capita GDP during Banking Crises, Alexander J. Brozdowski

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Outsourcing Mutual Fund Management: Firm Boundaries, Incentives and Performance, Joseph S. Chen, Jeffrey D. Kubik, and Harrison Hong

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Fueling Ukraine’s Future: Using Microfinance as a Tool for Reducing Energy Dependency and Changing Lives, Justin Cole

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China's Growing Role in World Trade: Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment, Judith M. Dean and Mary Lovely

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What's Wrong with Economics? It Ignores the Pogo Principle: "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us", Jerry Evenesky

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What’s Wrong with Economics? It Ignores the Pogo Principle: 'We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us', Jerry Evensky

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Adam Smith's Essentials: On Trust, Faith, and Free Markets, Jerry M. Evensky

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Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms, Andrew Friedson and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Do the GSEs Expand the Supply of Mortgage Credit? New Evidence of Crowd Out in the Secondary Mortgage Market, Stuart A. Gabriel and Stuart S. Rosenthal

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Homeownership Boom and Bust 2000 to 2009: Where Will the Homeownership Rate Go from Here?, Stuart A. Gabriel and Stuart S. Rosenthal

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The Value of Life: Real Risks and Safety-Related Productivity in the Himalaya, Jeremy Goucher and William C. Horrace

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Social Interactions in the Labor Market, Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner, and John A. Bishop

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Strategic Substitutes or Complements? The Game of Where to Fish, Robert L. Hicks, William C. Horrace, and Kurt E. Schnier

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Do Arbitrageurs Amplify Economic Shocks?, Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik, and Tal Fishman

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Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Productivity, Fariha Kamal

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Essays on the Inter-Governmental Interdependence of Tax Policy, Atsushi Kawamoto

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Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy in Depression, Thomas J. Kniesner, Regina Powers, and Thomas Croghan

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The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, and James P. Ziliak

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Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, and James P. Ziliak

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Financial Constraints on Corporate Goodness, Jeffrey D. Kubik, Jose A. Scheinkman, and Harrison Hong

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Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Louisiana’s Educational Systems, Emily Alice Larson

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Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa, Peter D. Little, John G. McPeak, Christopher B. Barrett, and Patti Kristjanson

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The Impact of International Trade on Wages: Trade Flows and Wage Premiums: Does Who or What Matter?, Mary Lovely and J. David Richardson

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Empirical Forecasting of Slow-Onset Disasters for Improved Emergency Response: An Application to Kenya's Arid North, Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak, Robert Kaitho, and Patti Kristjanson

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Essays on Testing Hypotheses When Non-stationarity Exists in Panel Data Models, Sang Gon Na

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Leaving or Staying: Inter-Provincial Migration in Vietnam, Phuong Nguyen-Hoang and John G. McPeak

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Why Aren’t Banks Loaning? An Analysis of Over $1 Trillion in Excess Reserves in the United States Banking System After the Financial Crisis of 2008-09, Gregory O. Orlowski

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Agglomeration Economics: Small Establishments/Big Effects: Agglomeration, Industrial Organization and Entrepreneurship, Stuart S. Rosenthal and William Strange

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Essays on the Impact of Trade on Labor Markets and Productivity in Korea, Jeong Eun Shin

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April 2011, Syracuse Department of Economics

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The Effects of Walmart on Healthcare and Unionization: Is America Really Saving Money and Living Better?, Leyla Ziad

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Preventing Pandemics: Contributing Factors to Susceptibility During the H1N1 Pandemic, Melanie A. Zilora

2010

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Essays on trade policy, institutions, and firm behavior, Reshad Nazir Ahsan

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America in Recovery: Tracking and Analyzing the Obama Stimulus During 2009, Gregory Cassel

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Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures: Skew, Bias and Scale, Qu Feng and William C. Horrace

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Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures: Skew, Bias, and Scale, Qu Feng and William C. Horrace

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The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru, Jose Galdo

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Do CT Scans help prevent cancer-related deaths?, Auyon J. Ghosh

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Tables of Percentage Points of the k-Variate Normal Distribution for Large Values of k, William C. Horrace

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Hedonic Wage Equilibrium: Theory, Evidence and Policy, Thomas J. Kniesner and John D. Leeth

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Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya, Andrew G. Mude, Sommarat Chantarat, Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, Munenobu Ikegami, and John G. McPeak

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Chinese Job Growth and Workers’ Injury Compensation in China, Ann O'Neill

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Three essays on international trade, development and the Chinese economy, Puman Ouyang

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The Influence of New Medications on Prescribing Behavior by Practice Type: A Regression Analysis, Rita M. Pattarini

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Accounting for Disability Insurance in the Dynamic Relationship Between Disability Onset and Earnings, Perry Singleton

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The Interrelation of Box Office Results How does one weekend’s movie attendance affect the next?, Drew Sullivan

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International trade, domestic institutions and development, Asha Sundaram

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April 2010, Syracuse Department of Economics

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November 2010, Syracuse Department of Economics

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Homo Economicus: Alive and Diversified in the Economic Research Program, Bradley R. Turner

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The Effects of Winning a Basketball National Championship on Admission Factors, Daniel Weistrop

2009

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A Note on the Application of EC2SLS and EC3SLS Estimators in Panel Data Models, Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

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Essays on testing for cross-sectional dependence and estimation of change points in panel data models, Qu Feng

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Three essays on education finance and policy, Julie Anna M. Golebiewski

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Three essays on agglomeration economies in the Korean manufacturing sector, Sung Hyo Hong

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Urbanization in developing countries, Jerry Kalarickal

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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility, Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

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Search and Offshoring in the Presence of 'Animal Spirits', Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

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The impact of government policies on the location decisions of new business, Shawn M. Rohlin

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The Value of Statistical Life: Pursuing the Deadliest Catch, Kurt E. Schnier, William C. Horrace, and Ronald G. Felthoven

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Measuring the Effect of Conflict on Oil Production and Prices, Benjamin Skomsky

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November 2009, Syracuse Department of Economics

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Differential effects of economic policy across local labor markets, Jeffrey P. Thompson

2008

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus, Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson, and William C. Strange

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Three essays on children's well-being in developing countries, Javier Eduardo Baez

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Testing for Random Effects and Spatial Lag Dependence in Panel Data Models, Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

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Rehab or Relocation? Estimating the Demand for Cocaine through an American Port City Analysis, Gustave A. Bartuska

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International Trade and Unemployment: Theory and Cross-National Evidence, Pushan Dutt, Devashish Mitra, and Priya Ranjan

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Public Long-Term Care Insurance and the Housing and Living Arrangements of the Elderly: Evidence from Medicare Home Health Benefits, Gary V. Engelhardt and Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley

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Supply-side housing subsidies and savings programs for the poor, Michael Donald Eriksen

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Household Wealth and Heterogeneous Impacts of a Market-Based Training Program: The Case of Projoven in Peru, Jose Galdo, Miguel Jaramillo, Veronica S. Montalva, and Sonia Moreau

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Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences, Andrew Grodner and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Social Interactions in Demand, Andrew Grodner and Thomas J. Kniesner

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Essays on federal tax policy for housing and urban redevelopment, Andrew R. Hanson

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The Incidence of Tobacco Taxation: Evidence from Geographic Micro-Level Data, Andrew Hanson and Ryan S. Sullivan

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Three essays in international trade and development, Ratidanai Hoonsawat

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Semiparametric Deconvolution with Unknown Error Variance, William C. Horrace and Chris Parmeter

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Semiparametric Deconvolution with Unknown Error Variance, William C. Horrace and Christopher F. Parmeter

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Fixed-Effect Estimation of Highly-Mobile Production Technologies, William C. Horrace and Kurt E. Schnier

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Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers among East African Pastoralists, Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett, and John G. McPeak

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Essays on measurement error, nonstationary panels and nonparametrics econometrics, Long Liu

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Perspectives on Development in Arid and Semi-Arid East Africa: Results of a Ranking Exercise, John G. McPeak, Cheryl R. Doss, Christopher B. Barrett, and Patti Kristjanson

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Can Offshoring Reduce Unemployment?, Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

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Interest on Bank Reserves and Optimal Sweeping, David D. VanHoose and Donald H. Dutkowsky

2007

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Essays on unemployment, marginal attachment and married women in the labor market, Luzeta C. Adorna

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Exchange rate policy and international trade linkages and impacts, Nayef N. Al-Shammari

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Measurement Error in Earnings Data in the Health and Retirement Study, Jessie Bricker and Gary V. Engelhardt

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Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001, Alberto Chong, Jose Galdo, and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi

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Inequality and the Instability of Polity and Policy, Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra

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Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data, Jose Galdo, Jeffrey A. Smith, and Dan Black

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Survive Then Thrive: Talent, Research Motivation, and Completing the Economics Ph.D., Wayne A. Grove, Donald H. Dutkowsky, and Andrew Grodner

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Homeownership Gaps Among Low-Income and Minority Households, Donald R. Haurin, Christopher E. Herbert, and Stuart S. Rosenthal

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A Monte Carlo Study of Efficiency Estimates from Frontier Models, William C. Horrace and Seth Richards

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Understanding Declining Mobility and Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pasoralists, Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett, and John G. McPeak

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Essays on education policies and discrimination in credit markets, Yue Hu

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Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, and James P. Ziliak