Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays in Labor Economics and Macroeconomics
(2022-05-09)In the first essay, we argue that productive firms share rents with workers only in occupations where workers have individual hold-up power. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel ... -
Essays in Labor Market Inequality
(2018-04-17)The three chapters in this dissertation center on various types of inequality in the labor market. In Chapter 1, I show that sons crowd out the transmission of entrepreneurship from fathers to daughters. This appears to ... -
Essays in Law and Economics
(2013-10-08)Part I examines the consequences of an organizational reform in Israel that transferred the responsibility for housing arrestees from the police to the prison authority. Using the staggered introduction of the reform in ... -
Essays in Law and Economics
(2013-10-08)This dissertation consists of three papers relating to the field of Law and Economics. The first two papers examine the impact of increased judicial discretion on both racial disparities and inter-judge disparities in the ... -
Essays in Local Labor Economics
(2014-06-24)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters. Chapter 1 examines the determinants and welfare implications of the increased geographic of workers by skill from 1980 to 2000. I estimate a structural spatial ... -
Essays in Macro-Finance
(2018-05-15)This dissertation focuses on three different topics in the intersection between financial economics and macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I embed the standard regime-change games prevalent in macroeconomics and financial ... -
Essays in Macroeconometrics
(2016-05-17)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters on econometric methods for macroeconomic analysis. In the first chapter, I propose to estimate structural impulse response functions from macroeconomic time series ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2015-04-20)This dissertation focuses on three prominent areas of macroeconomic policy: fiscal stimulus, bail-outs and industrial policy, and monetary policy. In each case, I analyze the nature of the problem without intervention first ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2021-05-11)My dissertation presents essays on topics in macroeconomics. In Chapter 1, I study the interplay between micro and macro uncertainty. I show that its effect on unemployment risk is the dominant transmission channel of macro ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics and Stabilization Policy
(2023-05-02)In the first essay, co-authored with Adriano Fernandes, we study the role of precautionary saving in heterogeneous-agent (HA) models. We first show that two calibrated versions of the model, one with standard and another ... -
Essays in Market Design
(2013-02-14)This dissertation consists of three essays in market design. The first essay studies a dynamic allocation problem. The second presents a new model for many-to-one matching markets where colleges are matched to a large ... -
Essays in Maternal and Child Health Economics
(2018-05-11)Overall, this dissertation studies important issues around the early years of our lives, both in developing and developed countries. With coauthors I first look at how maternity and neonatal care are influenced by what ... -
Essays in Mechanism and Market Design
(2016-04-28)This thesis consists of three essays on mechanism and market design. The first chapter studies the question of when we can eliminate investment inefficiency in a general mechanism design model with transferable utility. ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2012-07-26)If the number of individuals is odd, Campbell and Kelly (2003) show that majority rule is the only non-dictatorial strategy-proof social choice rule on the domain of linear orders that admit a Condorcet winner, an alternative ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics
(2013-02-22)This dissertation consists of three essays on microeconomics. The first two are theoretical papers that address issues in collective decision-making. The last is an experimental paper that explores gender differences in ... -
Essays in Microeconomics
(2013-02-13)This dissertation consists of three essays on microeconomics. The first essay considers matching markets, markets where buyers and sellers and concerned about who they interact with. It proposes a model to analyze these ... -
Essays in Monetary Policy
(2014-06-06)This dissertation presents three chapters addressing issues pertaining to monetary policy, information, and central bank communication. The first chapter studies optimal monetary policy in an environment where policy actions ... -
Essays in Monetary Policy With Informational Frictions
(2018-05-16)This dissertation presents three essays addressing the role of informational frictions in monetary policy. In particular, motivated by the observation that central banks around the world are often concerned about their ... -
Essays in Optimal Taxation
(2016-05-04)Policy often differs from the recommendations of theoretical optimal tax models in substantial and enduring ways. Such differences are sometimes surely because policy is suboptimal; however they may also be driven by ... -
Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation
(2016-05-18)In the first chapter of this dissertation, I look at the relationship between preference sets among students in similar majors, compared with different majors, in Peru. I find that students within majors share preference ...