Browsing by FAS Department "Public Policy"
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Land, Labor and Technology: Essays in Development Economics
(2015-05-17)Many of the world's rural poor make a living from agriculture. Consequently, the productivity of agriculture and non-agricultural employment opportunities are important determinants of rural poverty and the subject matter ... -
Navigating by Judgment: Organizational Structure, Autonomy, and Country Context in Delivering Foreign Aid
(2015-05-11)This dissertation examines when initiatives by International Development Organizations (IDOs) are more, and less, successful. The core argument is that allowing field-level agents to drive initiatives – what I call ... -
Oil and Water: Essays on the Economics of Natural Resource Usage
(2016-05-24)As the developing world continues its pace of rapid growth and the threat of climate change intensifies, the economics of natural resource usage become increasingly important. From the perspective of both economic efficiency ... -
Participation, Power and Preferences in International Development
(2015-09-28)Participatory development is widely touted as the remedy for ineffective and disempowering top-down development models of the past. However, participation can take many different forms, so an important open question for ... -
Studies in Labor Economics, Organizational Economics, and Development
(2015-12-07)The first chapter in this dissertation discusses the results of a field experiment that lasted three weeks at a firm in Saudi Arabia where we randomized an attention to variability or mindfulness training program. We ... -
Three Essays on Human Capital in the Public Sector
(2016-05-16)This dissertation presents three empirical studies on how to improve human capital in the public sector. In reverse chronological order, the essays ask who is attracted to public sector jobs (Paper 3); consider who can ... -
Why does technology fail to benefit the poorest farmers? A sociotechnical approach to the study of innovation and poverty
(2018-05-11)This dissertation seeks to understand the barriers preventing the poorest farmers from realizing greater benefits from technology innovation. The goal of the dissertation is to derive policy relevant insights for reorienting ...