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  Three essays in public economics 

  Gudgeon, Matthew Russell Wietsma (2018)

  This dissertation consists of three essays exploring how individuals, groups, and firms respond to public policy changes. The first two chapters focus on labor supply and demand responses to tax and unemployment insurance ...
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  Boosted dark matter and atmospheric neutrino Earth matter effects at Super-Kamiokande 

  Kachulis, Christopher John (2018)

  This dissertation presents two studies performed with data from Super-Kamiokande, a 50 kT water Cherenkov detector located 1,000 meters below Mt. Ikenoyama in Gifu, Japan, which has been operating since 1996. The first ...
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  Statistical methods for topology inference, denoising, and bootstrapping in networks 

  Kang, Xinyu (2018)

  Quite often, the data we observe can be effectively represented using graphs. The underlying structure of the resulting graph, however, might contain noise and does not always hold constant across scales. With the right ...
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  The impulse to orthodoxy: why illiberal democracies treat religious pluralism as a threat 

  Levy, David (2018)

  Since the late 1990s, governments across the post-Soviet space have redefined freedom of conscience as freedom from "non-traditional" religious groups — part of a broader effort to recast pluralism as a threat to national ...
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  Essays on international trade and industrial development 

  Johnson, William (2018)

  This dissertation argues that there are important asymmetries across industries with regard to their role in international trade and economic growth. In the first chapter, I develop a model of growth and trade that ...
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  Effective exposure: lag-parameterized exponential models for exposure risk 

  Gerlovin, Hanna (2018)

  Many observational studies assessing the effects of treatments or exposures are limited to comparisons between treatment users and nonusers or exposed and unexposed participants at study entry. However, the underlying and ...
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  Messengers and the art of reported speech in the Iliad 

  Hutcheson, Laurie Glenn (2018)

  This dissertation focuses on an aspect of the Iliad that at first might seem particularly formulaic, archaic, and, since Parry, characteristic of orality. When reporting messages, characters frequently repeat large portions ...
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  Publishing William Carlos Williams: selected correspondence 

  Gutierrez, Jeffrey (2018)

  Publishing William Carlos Williams: Selected Correspondence is a critical edition of William Carlos Williams’ communication with The Four Seas Company, which records the publishing of Al Que Quiere! (1917), Kora in Hell: ...
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  Spatial characteristics of the midnight temperature maximum and equatorial spread F from multi-instrument and magnetically conjugate observations 

  Hickey, Dustin A. (2018)

  The upper atmosphere, a region above ~85 km called the ionosphere and thermosphere, has been studied extensively for over one hundred years. Measurements were often considered in isolation, but today, advances in technology ...
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  Tereus, Procne, and Philomela: speech, silence, and the voice of gender 

  Libatique, Daniel (2018)

  This dissertation investigates speech, silence, and power in the Tereus, Procne, and Philomela myth in four sources: Sophocles’ Tereus, Aristophanes’ Birds, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and the Pervigilium Veneris. I pose three ...

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