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Essays on the Political Economy of Development
(2018-05-11)This dissertation examines how variation in institutions, such as property rights, and cultural norms, such as trust, affect development in Central America and Central Africa. The first chapter of the dissertation examines ... -
Essays on the Political Economy of Development
(2022-05-13)In this dissertation, I present three essays on the connections between economic outcomes and political behavior in developing countries. In Chapter 1, I evaluate how autocrats alter their distributive strategies in response ... -
Essays on the Political Economy of Development
(2023-05-09)This dissertation focuses on understanding four phenomena that affect political accountability in democratic regimes and the capacity of governments to produce public goods in many developing countries: misinformation, ... -
Essays on the Politics of Security Linkages in International Relations
(2023-06-01)Security has been regarded as the bedrock of high politics by international relations scholars. As it is treated as the central concern for states in an anarchical international system, it is important to study the politics ... -
Essays on the regulation of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
(2023-05-10)Regulatory policy for pharmaceuticals seeks to balance high quality evidence generation with access. The papers in this dissertation interrogate this balance by focusing specifically on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ... -
Essays on the Relationships Between School Context and Teachers' Instructional Practices and their Implications for Student Learning
(2023-09-11)In the three essays which compose this dissertation, I use econometric tools to examine the relationships between various measures of school context and teachers' practice. I first study how a literacy curriculum intervention ... -
Essays on the Risks and Real Effects of Non-Bank Financial Institutions
(2016-05-10)These essays explore the risks and real effects of various non-bank financial institutions, such as open-end mutual funds, hedge funds, and venture capital. In the first essay, “A Dynamic Theory of Mutual Fund Runs and ... -
Essays on the Role of Banks in the Macroeconomy
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of four essays that explore the interaction between banks and the supply of safe assets in the macroeconomy. -
Essays on the Role of Politics for Religious Affiliation and Identity
(2020-09-29)Political and religious identities are tightly interwined in the U.S. today. Political attachments causally affect decisions to join and leave organized religion. While the effect of politics on broad religious affiliation ... -
Essays on the STEM Trainee Labor Market
(2021-05-06)This dissertation consists of three essays on the careers of science, technology, engineering, and math- ematics (STEM) Ph.Ds. The first essay constructs the career paths of 156,089 research doctorate holders over six job ... -
Essays on the Teachers' Labor Market
(2013-10-08)Chapter 1 begins with the motivation of my study in teachers' labor market. I employ a monopolistic screening model to show that there exist multiple equilibria in the educational system; a pooling equilibrium and a ... -
Essays on the Transmission and Diffusion of Productive Knowledge in International Economics
(2014-06-06)Numerous empirical studies have shown the difficulties associated with the transmission of knowledge and the limitations of its diffusion process. What are the implications of these difficulties and limitations to international ... -
Essays on the U.S. Criminal Legal System and Black-White Inequality
(2023-06-01)A hallmark of the current time is both the pervasiveness of the criminal record and the wide accessibility of this information to employers, landlords, and even ordinary citizens. However, the mass use of this information ... -
Essays on the US Mortgage Market
(2022-04-01)This dissertation explores issues surrounding inequality and inefficiency in US mortgage markets. In the first chapter, I identify inefficiencies in the US mortgage market stemming from heterogeneous borrower refinancing ... -
Essays on the utilization of health and social services among low-income families in the United States
(2021-07-12)Interventions aimed at supporting low-income families of newborns and increasing access to mental health services in both the prenatal and postpartum periods can have positive effects on child health and development. ... -
Essays on Time-Varying Discount Rates
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Essays on Trade and Fiscal Policy
(2022-05-11)This dissertation consists of three chapters examining the economic effects of trade and fiscal policy. In the first chapter, I bring a new dynamic perspective to the cost-benefit analysis of tariffs, and show that temporary ... -
Essays on Trade and Imperfectly Competitive Markets
(2012-09-12)This dissertation is a collection of three essays on markets with imperfect competition, with implications for international economics. The first essay presents an analytic solution framework applicable to a wide variety ... -
Essays on Trade, Technology, and Banking
(2022-05-13)This dissertation comprises three essays on technology, international trade, and banking. The first two essays investigate industrial robots and their economic impact. In chapter 1, I construct a novel dataset that measures ... -
Essays on Unemployment and Labor Supply
(2014-06-06)Contrary to the predictions of standard reservation-wage search models, empirical studies consistently find that an extension of UI increases unemployment duration \textit{without} improving subsequent wages. Chapter 1 ...