This dissertation comprises three chapters in the fields of development and behavioral economics. Chapter 1 uses a field experiment to study the effect of social media on voters in a large election in Tamil Nadu, India. ...

This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter investigates the role of tax rates and tax enforcement in stimulating tax revenues in low-capacity settings. Using a randomized policy experiment assigning ...

This dissertation comprises three essays in development economics.

Chapter 1 studies the effects of fighting corruption on public service delivery. While corruption crackdowns have been shown to effectively reduce missing government expenditures, their effects on public service delivery ...

This dissertation explores how firms, consumers and households in the developing world adopt digital technology and interact with each other in the digital economy. The first chapter studies how a large-scale business ...

This dissertation explores the political and economic determinants of why households in developing countries have different economic outcomes. The first chapter documents how different electoral rules can lead to different ...

This dissertation presents three independent essays. Chapter 1, which is joint work with Mira Frick, studies a model of innovation adoption by a large population of long-lived consumers who face stochastic opportunities ...

The three chapters in this dissertation examine aspects of the relationships between transparency, government accountability, and the quality of public services. In the first chapter, I ask how ethnic diversity, or lack ...

While economic geography is concerned chiefly with proximity, models in urban economics eliminate proximity as a relative metric in order to preserve tractability. I introduce a new method of solving spatial models that ...