The United States Intelligence Community (IC) was born out of the experiences and organization of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and became a permanent fixture of the national security establishment ...

Inter-state conflicts are a key area of study in international relations, and have been approached with a variety of techniques, from case studies of individual conflicts, to formal analysis of abstract models and statistical ...

Many have written about how the Common Law should evolve. The few attempts to demonstrate this empirically, however, have not found evidence that this evolution takes place. This study uses a representation of the Article ...

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF CLIMATE CHANGE, LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITION, AND HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA

This dissertation bridges the gap between labor and firm dynamics through the study of complex networks in labor markets. With extensive use of large-scale employer-employee matched micro-data and agent-based modeling, we ...

The level of inequality has increased over the past several decades and reached at the historically high level in many developed countries. Yet, the traditional theory of supply and demand in labor has failed to elucidate ...

The problem of interest in this dissertation is the phenomenon of drifting toward opinion extremes. The process is called Radicalization and has received a great deal of attention in social psychology and sociology from ...

There are limitations to traditional methods of capturing the dynamics of violent interactions. These limitations are due to outcome driven approaches, data sampling issues, and inadequate means to capture, express, and ...

Innovation processes are critical for preserving and improving our standard of living. While innovation has been studied by many disciplines, the focus has been on qualitative measures that are specific to a single ...

In this dissertation, I empirically investigate cooperative behavior in networks using the framework of network public goods games. To do so, I use a dialogue between behavioral experiments and agent-based models. I design ...