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    • Behavioral and Experimental Insights on Consumer Decisions and the Environment 

      Shrum, Trisha Renee (2016-05-19)
      In the following essays, I apply theoretical insights and experimental methods from behavioral science to address three questions at the intersection of environmental economics and consumer behavior. In Chapter 1, I use ...
    • Compensation and Employment Policies in the U.S. Public Sector 

      Quinby, Laura Doss (2017-04-27)
      How do compensation and employment policies distinct to the public sector affect the quality of public services in the United States? I explore labor-market reactions to de-unionization, defined-benefit pensions, and ...
    • Essays at the Intersection of Development and Education Economics 

      Bau, Natalie (2015-04-21)
      This dissertation uses tools from economics to study three different aspects of educational markets in the developing world. In chapter 1, I analyze how competition among private schools in Pakistan affects student outcomes ...
    • Essays at the Intersection of Environment and Development Economics 

      Walker, Elizabeth Ruth (2015-05-11)
      The three essays in this dissertation explore how households in Southern Africa interact with and rely upon environmental resources. The first chapter examines the relationship between irrigation dam placement and local ...
    • Essays at the Intersection of Environmental and Development Economics 

      Nilekani, Janhavi (2018-05-13)
      Air pollution levels in many developing countries are critically high and hazardous to human health. This dissertation studies interventions and policies to reduce air pollution in India. The first chapter focuses on ...
    • Essays in Economic Development and Political Economy 

      Neggers, Yusuf (2016-05-17)
      The three chapters in this dissertation examine aspects of the relationships between transparency, government accountability, and the quality of public services. In the first chapter, I ask how ethnic diversity, or lack ...
    • Essays in Health and Behavioral Economics 

      Coussens, Stephen (2018-05-11)
      This dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which is an independent essay in the fields of health or behavioral economics. The first chapter explores the use of heuristics among highly-trained physicians diagnosing ...
    • Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation 

      Nadel, Sara B. (2016-05-18)
      In the first chapter of this dissertation, I look at the relationship between preference sets among students in similar majors, compared with different majors, in Peru. I find that students within majors share preference ...
    • Essays in Political Economy and Development 

      Okunogbe, Oyebola Motunrayo (2016-05-17)
      Chapter 1 examines the impact of interethnic exposure on national integration in a multiethnic state. It uses variation arising from a mandatory program in Nigeria that randomly posted university graduates to different ...
    • Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development 

      Acevedo, Maria Cecilia (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 Urban Economics and Development 

      Chauvin Rodriguez, Juan Pablo (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 Water Conservation and Water Quality Programs 

      Baker, Jonathan Early (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 Development Economics 

      Islam, Mahnaz (2015-05-18)
      This dissertation studies agricultural technology adoption, child labor and development. Although adoption of fertilizers has been high in South Asia, farmers may fail to use it efficiently. Besides higher costs incurred ...
    • Essays on Energy Technology Innovation Policy 

      Chan, Gabriel Angelo Sherak (2015-05-16)
      Motivated by global climate change, enhancing innovation systems for energy technologies is seen as one of the largest public policy challenges of the near future. The role of policy in enhancing energy innovation systems ...
    • Essays on Environmental Economics and Industrial Orgnanization 

      Chen, Cuicui (2018-05-02)
      This dissertation comprises three essays on environmental economics and industrial organization. A common theme for the essays is that they draw motivation from the real world and the theory literature to study individual ...
    • Essays on Industry Response to Energy and Environmental Policy 

      Sweeney, Richard Leonard (2015-05-17)
      This dissertation consists of three essays on the relationship between firm incentives and energy and environmental policy outcomes. Chapters 1 and 2 study the impact of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments on the United ...
    • Essays on Labor Markets in Developing Countries 

      Abel, Simon Martin (2017-05-05)
      Labor market frictions are particularly prevalent in developing countries. My dissertation documents the extent of various market frictions, investigates its economic consequences, and tests interventions aimed at addressing ...
    • Essays on the Economics of Education 

      Cohodes, Sarah Rose (2015-05-12)
      This dissertation includes three essays in the field of economics of education. The first essay provides estimates of the long-run impacts of tracking high-achieving students using data from a Boston Public Schools (BPS) ...
    • Ethnic Cleansing as Military Strategy: Lessons From Lebanon, 1975-1990 

      Hagerdal, Nils (2016-05-12)
      The Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990 is widely viewed as a canonical example of ethnic cleansing where violence separated a previously intermixed country into Christian and Muslim enclaves. In contrast, I introduce new data ...
    • Field Experiments in Behavioral and Public Economics 

      Bhanot, Syon Pandya (2015-05-11)
      The three essays in this dissertation present field experiments exploring phenomena in behavioral and public economics in real-world settings. The first essay outlines a field experiment that uses mailers with peer rank ...