PhDs at UTD, 1988-2021

PhDs at UTD, 1988-2021

Name

Year

Thesis

Mehrzad Ahlberg

2013

Values and Development: Associations Between Culture and Global Competitiveness

Rubana Ahmed

2012

Access to Credit by the Poor: The Role of Peer-to-Peer Lending via Not-for-Profit Organizations

Jesus Alejandro Tirado Alcaraz

2012

Has Progresa-Oportunidades Alleviated Poverty in Mexico and Affected Mexican Domestic and International Migration?

Emmanuel Alexandrakis

1992

Master Planning, Amenities and Property Values. The Relationships in North Suburban Dallas

Osamah Almuayyad

2015

Effects of No Child Left Behind on the Performance of Texas Public High Schools

Jeffrey Ayres

2011

Do Neighborhood Associations Help Sustain Inner-ring Suburban Home Property Values?

Hassan Ballout

1992

Determinants of Executive Compensation

Jayshree Bihari

2013

Climate Change and Policymaking. A Tale of Three Countries

Jekabs Bikis

2011

Efficiency of the Welfare State

Charles C.L. Boortz

1994

Boom and Bust in Dallas 1983 to 1993. A Case Study

Monica Brussolo

2011

The Kuznets Hypothesis Revisited: Exploring Mexican Inequality at the Sub-National Level

Xiang Cai

2016

Affordable Housing Policies in China. A Comparative Case Study

Mercedez Callenes

2021

Gender Disparities in Decision Making in Agriculture: A Case Study of Small Producers in Peru

Cory Carr

2020

Are Active Labor Market Policies Reducing Youth Unemployment in the European Union?

Alexis Cass

2014

Financial Knowledge, Fringe Banking, and the Near Poor

Roberto Cavazos

1998

Determinants of Metropolitan Area Income Growth and Convergence

Robert Chalwell

2013

The Political Economy of Trade and Development in the Commonwealth Caribbean

Gang Chang

1994

Savings, Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Financial Repression Theory Reevaluated

Yi-Bin Chang

2013

Personal Value Orientations and Redistribution: Why do People not Support Redistribution even if They are Suffering from Economic Distress?

Ping (Penny) Chen

2011

Universities’ Entrepreneurial Performance: The Role of Agglomeration Economies

Byung Rok Choi

1997

High-Technology Development and Regional Economic Growth. Policy Implications of Dynamic Externalities

Jin-Suk Chun

1990

Interregional Migration and Regional Development

Kyoun-Sup Chung

1994

Hedonic Models of Housing Prices: A Critical Appraisal of the Assumptions

Cheri L. Colter

2015

Spatial Inequality and Academic Outcomes: An Analysis of Neighborhood Factors Affecting Student Performance

Steven Conover

2011

U.S. Middle Class Income Stagnation, 2000-2007: Reality or Illusion?

Samantha Dean

2018

College Preparedness: The Problem in North Texas

Patricia Huesca Dorantes

2001

The Emergence of Multiparty Competition in Méxican Politics

Santiya Eag-Ark

1993

Business Cycles and the Dynamics of the Housing Market: The Filtering Process in Dallas County, 1981-1990

Doric Earle

2013

Forward Dallas! An Evaluation

Christopher Franklin

2018

Three Essays for the Retail Planner: Spatializing Bass, Temporalizing Huff and Visualizing the Ensemble

John R. Greer

2002

Equity in the Spatial Distribution of Municipal Services

William C. Grover

2015

The Efficacy of Price Control to Address Wartime Inflation

Rodolfo Hernandez Guerrero

2001

The Demographic Transition in Costa Rica and Venezuela

Prachi Gupta

2012

Demand Side Management: An Approach to Peak-Load Smoothing

James Sawalla Guseh

1991

The Impact of Government Size on Economic Growth: A Political Economy Framework

Tian Hang

2021

The Markets for University Graduates in Nanjing, China

Ayesha Tahir Hashmi

2016

Islamic Finance in the U.S.: Adoption and Adaptation

James Gaius Ibe

1989

Political Instability and Economic Development: A Cross-National Analysis

John Egbo-Chioma Ilokwu

1991

Privatization in Nigeria: An Assessment

Iftekhairul Islam

2021

Task Attributes, Technological Change and the Vulnerability of Employment: A State-Level Investigation

Sayeeda Jamilah

2020

An Investigation into the Values and Civic and Political Engagement of High School Students in Islamic Schools

Lyssa A. Jenkens

1995

Office Location in a Post-Industrial Urban Environment

Ying Jia

2015

Venture Capital in Chinese Economic Growth

Alisha Kim

2017

New Methods of Multilateralism: Investigating the Dynamics of Transboundary Water Governance

Cheon-Kwuan Kim

1990

Diversity and Stability in the Growth of US Metropolitan Regions

Eun Mi Kim

2001

The US Export Administration Act: Rationale and Role

Hak-Min Kim

1994

Globalization of International Financial Markets: Causes and Consequences

Heja Kim

1991

Long-Wave Rhythms: The British Case

Sung-Jong Kim

1991

Productivity of Cities: Theory, Measurement and Policy Implications

Young Seok Kim

1997

Reappraisal of the Convergence Hypothesis from the Perspective of Endogenous Growth Theory

Stephan Kiser

2008

Effect of Cross-Border Trade on the Texas Space Economy

James Michael Latham

2013

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Human Capital Accumulation

Stephanie Martin

2005

Determinants of the Well-being of Native Alaskans; Do Communities Matter?

Agustin Palao Mendzibal

2017

Mexico’s Credit Guarantees Program: Financial Inclusion and the Promotion of Rural Development

Christine Millard-Duckworth

2021

Christianity in Politics: Churches, Congregations and the Role of Ministers

Valerie Miller

2015

The State of Water Policy in North Central Texas: Where Do We Go From Here?

Salma Mirza

2020

Consumer Confidence Index Surveys: A New Indicator for Pakistan

Okeniyi Ayinla Oke

1994

Sources of Productivity Change in Nigerian Agriculture, 1966-1985

Christine Oketch

2021

The Future of Soft Skills in a High-Technology Labor Market

Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn

2008

Subjective Wellbeing/Life Satisfaction/Happiness: Determinants of Values at the Individiual and Societal Levels

Dennis Kwadko Okyere

2018

Effects of Mobile Phone Use on Household Travel Behavior in Kumasi, Ghana

Christie Chilo Onwujuba

1994

Family Type Differentiation and Residential Choice, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, 1990

James Owen

2001

Currency Devaluation and Developing Country Export Demand

Chung-Ron Pi

1994

Expression of Culture in Economic Development

Bobby F. Praytor

2008

Water for the Metroplex: An Assessment of the Planning and Forecasting Techniques of Dallas Water Utilities

Melinda Rodgers

2011

Policy Department Efficiency: Texas, 2008

Osvaldo Tello Rodriquez

2009

Globalization and Democracy in Latin America

Alejandro Rostran

2001

The Inquiry into the Rationale for a Second Inter-Oceanic Canal in Central America

Ellen Safley

1996

Dynamics of Retailing in a Post-Industrial Metropolitan Region

David Saucedo de la Fuente

2021

The Effect of Drug-Related Violence on Mexico’s Economy: FDI Inflows, Labor Productivity, and Remittances. A Spatial Econometrics Approach

Pornpong Sumanun

1993

Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth and Modernization in Developing Countries: A Cross-National Analysis, 1961 to 1987

Olga Stain Taylor

2013

Maternal Social Reproduction in Job Corps Youth

Maria Elena Labastida Tovar

2009

Essays on Policies that Influence International Factor Mobility

Duong Thanh Truong

2013

Public Enterprises and Economic Performance: An Examination of Vietnamese State Owned Enterprises

Yi-En Tso

2016

Locations for Emergency Shelters in Taiwan: A Policy Issue in Disaster Preparedness

Sunday O.S. Uzuh

1988

Regional Economic Integration: A Development Strategy in West Africa

Rubia da Roche Valente

2013

Effects of Racial Discrimination on High School Performance and College Admission in Brazil

Jimmy Lynn Verner, Jr.

2009

A New Look at the Minimum Wage’s Effect on Employment

Paul Waddell

1989

Factors Determining Household Choice of Residence, Workplace and Housing Tenure: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, 1980

Irwanda Wardhana

2016

Business and Social Efficiency of Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises: Evidence fom Data Envelopment Analysis