Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Economics
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
This dissertation includes three chapters contributing to the applied economics literature, including international trade and productivity, labor market institutions, and entrepreneurship. Chapter 2 re-examines the impact of international trade on economic growth using a time-varying instrument to address the endogeneity problem in the literature. Chapter 3 is on employment protection and its consequences in the US. Specifically, it uses recent developments in the difference-in-differences approach to investigate the effects of employment protection on employment, wage, and firm profitability in the US between 1970-1999. Chapter 4 builds on American historian Frederick J. Turner’s argument that moving the western frontier influenced American spirit and character. It examines whether the frontier experiences in the formative years have influenced contemporary entrepreneurship.
Date
4-16-2024
Recommended Citation
Ma, Jiantao, "ESSAYS IN APPLIED ECONOMICS" (2024). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 6460.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/6460
Committee Chair
Unel, Bulent