Essays in microeconomics with applications in education, health and crime
- (...) Simple changes in an institutional framework can have huge impacts for the human society which makes it important to analyze them and define their consequences to create a surplus for the society. In the following dissertation, I present applications how policy regulations and external events generate behavioral responses with a focus on indirect effects, e.g. from health on education and education on crime. All chapters, while not exclusively, follow an empirical approach and show effects in important fields of human society. Beyond the research methods from microeconomics, this dissertation tackles the field of health, early childhood development, secondary education, adolescent drug-abuse and law enforcement. Several identification strategies are used to cope with endogeneity and deliver causal effects between the fields of education, health and crime.(...)
Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
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Language: | English |
Author(s): | Franz Westermaier |
Advisor: | Christian Traxler, Peter Haan |
Hertie Collections (Serial Number): | Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (01/2016) |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing Institution: | Hertie School |
Granting Institution: | Hertie School |
Thesis date: | 2016/07/29 |
Number pages: | VII, 105 |
Release Date: | 2017/08/04 |
Notes: | Shelf mark: 2016D001 + 2016D001+1 |
Hertie School Research: | Publications PhD Researchers |
Licence of document (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - 4.0 International |