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Essays on Political Methodology and Data Science
(2015-05-15)This collection of six essays makes novel methodological contributions to causal inference, time-series cross-sectional forecasting, and supervised text analysis. The first three essays start from the premise that while ... -
Essays on Political Responses to Climate Change Mitigation, Geoengineering, and Adaptation
(2022-11-23)Climate mitigation, geoengineering, and adaptation present humans with new opportunities and challenges. The three essays that comprise this dissertation use diverse methods — a randomized control trial, formal model, and ... -
Essays on Power in Labor Markets
(2021-05-17)Workers’ pay and working conditions are determined not just by the productivity of their labor, but also by power and institutions. Factors affecting pay and working conditions may include the availability of good outside ... -
Essays on Precommitment
(2022-11-23)Precommitment is a way for someone to impose certain constraints on or alter various incentives, in order to encourage (or discourage) future behavior. Precommitment primarily is situated in the literature on self-control, ... -
Essays on Provider Behavior in Health Care Markets
(2013-10-18)This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the determinants of hospital and physician decisions and the consequences of those decisions for social welfare. -
Essays on Public and Labor Economics
(2016-05-14)Chapter 1 presents evidence that current economics research significantly underestimates the effects of air pollution, regardless of the outcome of interest. This bias exists even in quasi-experimental estimates and arises ... -
Essays on Public Economics and Fiscal Policy
(2023-05-11)This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first two chapters investigate how individuals’ perceptions and beliefs shape their economic behavior and their attitudes towards public policies, using large-scale surveys ... -
Essays on Public Health Insurance
(2016-04-26)Over the last ten years there have been dramatic changes in the health insurance environment in the United States, spurred on by broad reforms in the public health insurance sector. In 2006 the Medicare Prescription Drug, ... -
Essays on Public Outcomes Reporting and Technology Adoption in Health Care
(2013-02-08)This dissertation consists of three essays on hospital-based healthcare delivery. The first essay examines the effect of public reporting of hospital-level surgical mortality rates on patient outcomes in the context of ... -
Essays on Public School Choice and Inequality
(2023-04-26)This dissertation consists of three papers. In each paper, I use applied econometric methods to study the implications of public school choice policies. The findings offer insights about how to improve upon existing school ... -
Essays on Random Choice
(2015-05-13)Chapter 1 introduces and axiomatizes a new class of representations for incomplete preferences called confidence models, which describe decision makers who behave as if they have probabilistic uncertainty over their true ... -
Essays on Regulation in Health Care Markets
(2021-07-12)This dissertation consists of three chapters studying the regulation of payer and provider health care markets. The first chapter studies how the geographic market definitions of the Affordable Care Act health insurance ... -
Essays on Regulations in Health Care and Mergers
(2023-06-01)This dissertation consists of three essays in public economics and industrial organization, focusing on the role of government regulation in health care and mergers in consumer-packaged goods. The first chapter studies ... -
Essays on Resource Allocation in Public Health Care
(2022-11-23)Governments play a massive role in financing health care, accounting for 60% of spending worldwide. Squeezed between rising costs of medical technology and aging populations, the costs of administering public health insurance ... -
Essays on Retail Investor Behavior in Financial Markets
(2023-05-01)This dissertation examines the trading behavior of retail investors using large datasets and both causal inference and structural estimation methods. The study has two main objectives: to understand the heterogeneity across ... -
Essays on Retirement, Savings and Health
(2015-05-05)As life expectancy rises and the workforce around the developed world ages, questions about retirement, savings, and health are becoming increasingly important. Are households saving enough for retirement? What is the role ... -
Essays on Sales Management
(2022-05-12)Sales management is one of the most important matters in marketing strategy. An effective sales management policy properly motivates and controls salespeople, thereby aligning their behaviors with the organization's ... -
Essays on Schools, Crime, and Punishment
(2015-05-19)This dissertation consists of three essays on schools, crime, and punishment. The first essay — stemming from collaborative work with Christopher Jencks, Anthony Braga, and David Deming — uses longitudinal school and ... -
Essays on Shock Propagation in Economic Production Networks: Applications to U.S. Oil Price Episodes and Green Jobs
(2022-05-12)This dissertation is composed of three essays that explore how dynamics in economic production networks can lead shocks to have differential impacts for producing entities and for workers. In Chapter 1, I propose a set of ... -
Essays on Social and Economic Networks
(2020-12-07)Social and economic outcomes are shaped in fundamental ways by individuals' networks and interactions. This dissertation studies the transmission of ideas and information in social networks: how do people process and respond ...