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Erica Field earned a BA in Economics and Latin American Studies from Vassar College in 1996. As a Fulbright scholar, she then studied the impact of government programs in Peru on that country's labor force, before returning to school at Princeton University, where she completed her PhD in 2003 with a thesis on the impact of land-title reform on labor supply in Peru. [4]
The bibliographic database (without full-text dissertations) is known as Dissertation Abstracts or Dissertation Abstracts International. PQDT annually publishes more than 90% of all dissertations submitted from accredited institutions of higher learning in North America as well as from colleges and universities in Europe and Asia.
It is based on Samuelson's 1941 doctoral dissertation at Harvard University. The book sought to demonstrate a common mathematical structure underlying multiple branches of economics from two basic principles: maximizing behavior of agents (such as of utility by consumers and profits by firms) and stability of equilibrium as to economic systems ...
Description: Explores the "specific differentia of medical care as the object of normative economics", demonstrating that the consideration of uncertainty is key to understanding markets in health care. Importance: Generally considered a seminal work of enduring significance; key to the foundation of health economics as a field of study.
Candidate of Sciences (Candidatus scientiarum – CSc., replaced by common Ph.D. in the Czech Republic in 1998 and by PhD. in Slovakia in 1996); Doctor of philosophy (Philosophiae doctor – Ph.D. or PhD., awarded since 1998 and 1996, respectively; requires at least 3–5-year doctoral study and coursework of 120-180 Credits)
Caitlin Knowles Myers is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics and Director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods at Middlebury College.She is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) [1] and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
The Adam Smith Prizes are prizes currently awarded for the best overall examination performance and best dissertation in Part IIB of the Economics Tripos (the graduation examination for economics undergraduates) at the University of Cambridge. [1]
Articles in economics journals are usually classified according to JEL classification codes, which derive from the Journal of Economic Literature.The JEL is published quarterly by the American Economic Association (AEA) and contains survey articles and information on recently published books and dissertations.