Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development
(2015-05-19)This dissertation seeks to identify causes and consequences of some of the most complex social phenomena, such as civil conflict and climate change. In the first essay I draw on existing theories of labor coercion (Acemoglu ... -
Essays in the Political Economy of Information
(2014-06-06)The primary focus of this dissertation is on information, its production and dissemination in society. In the first chapter, I explore the consequences of an increase in the number of newspapers on the quantity and quality ... -
Essays in Time Series Econometrics
(2018-04-23)In this dissertation, I address issues related to both statistical and causal inference in time series in three independent chapters. In the first chapter, coauthored with E. Lazarus and J. H. Stock, we use higher-order ... -
Essays in Urban Economics
(2014-06-06)In this set of essays, I grapple with issues related to the core questions of urban economics. Why are people so heavily clustered in urban areas? Why do some cities grow while others decline? What explains where people ... -
Essays in Urban Economics and Development
(2018-05-13)This dissertation comprises three essays at the intersection of Urban and Development Economics. The first chapter explores whether well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also hold in three large developing ... -
Essays in Urban Economics and Industrial Organization
(2023-05-12)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters related to the provision (or underprovision) of urban retail amenities. Chapter 1 (co-authored with Daniel Stackman) asks why storefronts remain empty for more than ... -
Essays in US Fiscal Policy
(2015-04-20)This dissertation presents three chapters about US tax and spending policy. The first chapter investigates the take-up of a tax refund for corporate losses. We find that few firms claim the refund despite that it dominates ... -
Essays in Water Conservation and Water Quality Programs
(2017-05-12)As growing populations continue to drive demand for water, managers of this fundamental resource face the dual challenge of providing both sufficient and clean supplies. In this dissertation, I undertake two analyses ... -
Essays on Adverse Selection and Access to Specialty Care in Medicaid
(2021-11-16)Public health insurance programs in the United States are increasingly administered through the use of private managed care plans. Under this arrangement, private plans compete to offer coverage to beneficiaries, and the ... -
Essays on Aggregate Demand Shocks and Dynamic Games
(2023-05-12)This thesis studies how considering competition among firms in long-run, repeated settings can alter policy welfare evaluations relative to single-period static models. I explore this issue through empirical and computational ... -
Essays on Aggregate Implications of Micro Distortions
(2022-05-16)In this dissertation, I study the impact of the microstructure of the economy on aggregate outcomes. In the first essay, I analyze the welfare effects of producer market power in frameworks with free entry and endogenous ... -
Essays on Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries
(2022-05-16)In these three essays, I analyse the effects of institutions on rural development through the lens of natural resource management in chapter 1, agricultural productivity in chapter 2, and rural agglomeration economies in ... -
Essays on Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-24)Empirical and theoretical topics in applied microeconomics are discussed in this dissertation. The first essay identifies and measures managerial advantages from access to high-quality deals in venture capital investments. ... -
Essays on Applied Microeconomics
(2023-06-01)This dissertation comprises three chapters in the fields of applied microeconomics. The first chapter, co-authored with Reshmaan Hussam, uses a field experiment in rural Bangladesh to provide empirical evidence of behavioral ... -
Essays on Asset Prices and Macroeconomic News Announcements
(2016-05-06)My dissertation is composed of three chapters that are unified by their exploration of asset prices and macroeconomic news announcements. With respect to asset prices, my main focus is on the price discovery process: how ... -
Essays on Asset Pricing and Econometrics
(2014-06-06)This dissertation presents three essays on asset pricing and econometrics. The first chapter identifies rare events and long-run risks simultaneously from a rich data set (the Barro-Ursua macroeconomic data set) and evaluates ... -
Essays on Audit Program Design, Audit Quality, and Violation Resolution
(2023-05-09)Downstream businesses that utilize global suppliers frequently use auditing programs to monitor their suppliers’ working conditions and are often deployed to address reputational concerns associated with procuring from ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economic Theory
(2023-05-03)This dissertation consists of three essays on behavioral economic theory with a focus on expectations-based reference dependence. In the first essay, I introduce a formal economic model of reference-dependent ego utility. ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics
(2023-05-11)This dissertation concerns the nature and origins of reference dependence in the domain of choice under risk. I argue both theoretically and empirically that past history of risks matters in shaping individual economic ... -
Essays on Beliefs in Education and Criminal Justice
(2023-01-05)Our perceptions of the world around us---whether right or wrong---have substantial impacts on the decisions we make. This dissertation examines how differences in beliefs contribute to inequality in American education and ...