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Essays on parties and personalism
(2023-05-02)This dissertation comprises three essays that explore the role of political parties and personalism in democracies. The first essay posits that personalist democracies arise when politicians employ personalist strategies ... -
Essays on Place and Punishment in America
(2016-05-14)This dissertation consists of three essays on the spatial and neighborhood dynamics of incarceration in the United States. In the first essay, I apply theories of social control and urban inequality to study prison admission ... -
Essays on Platforms: Asymmetric Information, Search, and Policy
(2013-09-24)The three essays of this thesis cover two sets of topics: search in auction platforms in the first two papers, and political campaigning in the last. In platform settings, search cost reductions are often regarded as ... -
Essays on Policy in Low-Wage Labor Markets
(2023-05-11)Many policies seek to improve the lot of low-wage workers in the United States and thus target the labor markets in which they work. However, the effects of these policies may be complicated by the features of these markets. ... -
Essays on Political Corruption
(2015-04-29)This dissertation presents three essays offering explanations for the persistence of corruption despite electoral competition. The first essay, co-authored with Adam Glynn and Nahomi Ichino, asks what the effect of electoral ... -
Essays on Political Economy
(2015-05-19)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the effect of competition on media bias in the context of U.S. newspapers in the period 1870-1910. We measure bias as the intensity ... -
Essays on Political Economy and Macroeconomics
(2021-04-23)This dissertation consists of four essays on a range of topics in political economy and macroeconomics which are united by having current policy relevance. The first essay studies the effects of social policy laws ... -
Essays on Political Economy of Media and Trust
(2018-04-27)The current essays generally concern the topic of inter-personal, inter-institutional, person-to-institution, and institution-to-person communications as well as their reliability as means of information transmission and ... -
Essays on Political Economy, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics
(2014-02-25)The first chapter of this dissertation analyzes voting behavior across multiple elections. The voting literature has largely analyzed voter turnout and voter behavior separately, focusing on individual elections. I present ... -
Essays on Political Methodology
(2022-09-16)This dissertation consists of five independent essays in political methodology. First four essays propose statistical methodologies for causal inference, with particular emphasis on the analysis of repeated measurements ... -
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 ...