Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1995. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-171).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Carolina, 1987. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [148]-156).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-104).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept of Economics, June 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (MS)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Robert K. Fleck. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

Proefschrift Universiteit Maastricht. / Auteursnaam op omslag: Frank Cörvers. Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

My research focuses on the integration of behavioral economics into well understood general equilibrium macroeconomic models populated by overlapping generations of heterogeneous agents. Specifically, I analyze the implications of populating model economies with present-biased agents who are finitely lived, subject to idiosyncratic labor income shocks, and heterogeneous in both exponential and present-biased discount factors. My primary goal is characterizing the contribution of behavioral biases towards resolving several issues in the literature pertaining to human capital investment and aggregate wealth inequality. Further, the inclusion of present bias in carefully calibrated model economies allows me to rationalize empirical differences in consumption, wealth, and education that arise between observationally similar households that models of homogeneous, exponential discounters are unable to match.