Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays on the Economics of Health Care, Productivity, and Market Structure
(2021-04-30)The first essay studies how private-equity driven consolidation in health care affects real outcomes. By matching insurance claims data with information on private equity acquisitions of dental clinics, we show that private ... -
Essays on the Economics of Household Water Access in Developing Countries
(2013-02-13)This dissertation focuses on the economics of household water access in developing countries. The first paper explores whether improvements in water technology enable changes in household time allocation and, thereby, ... -
Essays on the Economics of Information
(2018-05-13)Information plays a central role in economic activities. How do people acquire information, individually or collectively, and what are the implications for markets? In this dissertation, I formalize these questions and ... -
Essays on the Economics of Public Sector Recruitment in India
(2021-05-13)This dissertation compiles three essays that study how the institution of exam-based civil service recruitment in India interacts with the rest of the labor market. In the first chapter, I ask whether the intense competition ... -
Essays on the Economics of Risk and Financial Markets
(2013-09-23)Prices in financial markets are primarily driven by the interaction of risk and time. The returns to financial assets over long time horizons are primarily driven by fundamental news regarding their promised cash flows. ... -
Essays on the Economics of the Family
(2012-07-25)This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how families form and how family members interact. The first chapter studies and connects recent trends in age at marriage and divorce. The second chapter looks within ... -
Essays on the Economics of U.S. Firefighting
(2021-07-12)Between 1987 and 2017, the number of annual fire incidents in the US declined by nearly 45 percent, while the number of total career (salaried) firefighters increased by almost 55 percent. This dissertation, which consists ... -
Essays on the Economics of Wage Inequality
(2014-06-06)In this dissertation I examine changes in wage inequality in two chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the slowdown in the relative demand for college-educated labor in the U.S. since the early 1980s. A large literature ... -
Essays on the Federal Judicial Hierarchy
(2021-07-12)This dissertation considers the multiple ways that the hierarchical structure of the U.S. federal judiciary constrains (or fails to constrain) judicial behavior. How much are lower court judges constrained by courts above ... -
Essays on the Historical and Contemporary Development of Mexico
(2023-05-10)This dissertation studies the historical and contemporary development of Mexico from the beginning of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. In the first chapter, I study the effects of the 1920s rural school ... -
Essays on the Influence of International Agreements
(2013-09-18)Since World War II, states have negotiated a staggering number of bilateral and multilateral international agreements. Despite that fact, scholars of international relations and international law have only recently begun ... -
Essays on the Influence of Western Institutions on Indigenous Societies
(2021-07-23)This dissertation comprises three essays on the influence of western institutions on the development path of Chile's largest indigenous group, the Mapuche. Chapter 1 documents the evolution of land ownership and social ... -
Essays on the Interactions Between Health Insurance and Labor Markets, and the Role of the Affordable Care Act
(2023-05-11)This dissertation consists of three chapters that study the interactions between health insurance and labor markets in the United States, especially in light of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. The first chapter ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
(2018-05-11)Chapter 1 documents that much of the decline in labor force participation of U.S. prime age men comes from "in-and-outs"---who I define as men who temporarily leave the labor force. Individuals moving in and out of the ... -
Essays on the Morality of Violence
(2021-07-12)This dissertation defends the moral permissibility of certain acts of violence and protest, particularly in cases in which the harms involved would not achieve strategically productive ends—or in other words, in cases in ... -
Essays on the Political Economy of Corruption and Rent-Seeking
(2013-09-24)The dissertation is made up of three papers on the political economy of corruption and rent-seeking. Two of the papers make use of the historical experience of Britain to illustrate the theoretical points being made. The ... -
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 ...