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Title: Essays in Applied Economics and Data Analysis

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Applied Microeconomics connects economics theories with detailed micro-level data in order to test the theoretical foundation. My dissertation is comprised of two chapters, which include four essays, in applied microeconomics to define new modeling approach for cultural behaviors and energy economics. The first chapter demonstrates a proper model to measure the effect of culture on economic behaviors, particularly on women’s decisions to work and fertility. This chapter shows that the best way to measure the cultural effect is assessing second-generation immigrants’ behaviors in a host country. Each immigrant has a specific culture that he/she brings to the host country and may transmit to his/her own second generation. Accordingly, economic behaviors of second-generation immigrants may depend on the historical characteristics of their ancestors’ heritage countries. This study indicates that an ancestor’s female labor force participation and total fertility rate are more likely to have an impact on the number of hours a woman works and the number of children she has in the United States. This study suggests that the second-generation immigrant who kept their . . .

Url: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/72327

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Authors: Salari, Mahmoud

Institution: Texas Tech University

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Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other

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