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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2012-08-10)Chapter 1 develops a model of parallel trading of corporate securities (shares, bonds) and derivatives in which a large trader can sometimes profitably acquire securities and the corporate control rights inherent therein ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in labor economics and political economy. -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2015-02-02)This dissertation collects three pieces of work. The first chapter documents empirically how Danish households substituted between insurance and liquidity, namely how the up-take of unemployment insurance fell when credit ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2016-05-11)This thesis combines three essays in applied microeconomics. The first essay studies hospital responses to price changes and the introduction of DRG reimbursements; using a large administrative data set on all inpatient ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2021-09-09)This dissertation consists of three independent essays. The first essay develops an urban spatial model with heterogeneous worker groups and incorporating travel to consume non-tradable goods and services. It estimates the ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-05-13)This dissertation consists of four essays on a range of topics in urban, labor and behavioral economics. The first essay (co-authored with Benjamin Austin) studies the long run effect of Right-to-Work Laws on labor market ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-06-06)This dissertation is composed of three chapters addressing topics in health and labor economics. The first chapter characterizes how various regulatory features in a large United States health insurance market, Medicare ... -
Essays in Asset Pricing and Macroeconomics
(2017-05-13)This dissertation presents three essays. The first essay finds that investment strategies which generate “alphas” become endogenously risky by acquiring “betas” with respect to shocks that institutional arbitrageurs are ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays examining the implications of human psychology for economic behavior and market outcomes. -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-10-08)This dissertation consists of three essays which make use of laboratory experiments in order to investigate how procedural or contextual factors impact human behavior. -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2022-05-16)This dissertation consists of essays in behavioral and experimental economics that address policy-relevant questions. The first chapter, coauthored with Elizabeth Bell, reports on a lab-in-the-field experiment among ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Identity Economics
(2022-04-19)I leverage survey methodology and controlled decision environments to study the role of identity across a wide variety of domains of economic importance. Chapter 1, which is co-authored with Benjamin Enke and Florian ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2013-03-14)Essays in this dissertation cover three topics in behavioral economics: social preferences, ambiguity aversion and self-control. The first essay, based on work with Aurelie Ouss, studies the behavior of individuals making ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2021-07-12)This dissertation presents three studies in behavioral economics, with a focus on factors that influence how individuals make financial decisions. Paper one examines the impact of the payday cycle on commitment decisions. ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2022-05-12)In this dissertation I study the psychological factors that influence economic decision-making in a variety of contexts including work place behavior, electoral voting decisions, and take-up of mental health treatment. Chapter ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2023-06-01)Good economic decision-making hinges on whether agents appropriately respond to the incentives they face. Mistaken beliefs about those incentives, or inattention to important consequences of choices, can therefore distort ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics and Innovation
(2015-01-12)This dissertation consists of three essays, two in behavioral economics and one on the economics of innovation. The first essay, which is joint work with Emily Glassberg Sands, exploits the randomness of weather and the ... -
Essays in Behavioral Household Finance
(2012-08-07)This dissertation investigates some of the factors affecting modern household finance decisions in the United States using natural experimental variation and administrative data. In Chapter 1 I estimate the effects of ... -
Essays in Behavioral Macro-Finance
(2021-05-17)This dissertation presents three chapters that study the effect of incorporating insights from behavioral economics into macro-finance models. The first chapter evaluates the impact of diagnostic (extrapolative) ... -
Essays in Causal Inference and Public Policy
(2015-05-05)This dissertation addresses statistical methods for understanding treatment effect variation in randomized experiments, both in terms of variation across pre-treatment covariates and variation across post-randomization ...