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This thesis consists of three essays examining issues related to human capital, careers, and financial economics. In the first chapter, I examine how the proces

Chapter 1. "Growth in a Patrilocal Economy: Female Schooling, Household Savings, and China's One-Child Policy," joint with Ting-Wei Lai. In this chapter, we ans

This dissertation examines various aspects of human capital and their linkage to the financial markets. The first chapter empirically shows that the cost of deb

Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient o