Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Espectros de parentesco Crisis de pertenencia en la literatura y el cine argentino contemporáneo (2001 – 2020)
(2024-05-09)What are art’s affordances after a crisis? How does art process its relation to the nation-state after its near dissolution? In my dissertation, I grapple with these questions by exploring literary and cinematographic works ... -
Essay on Maternal Health
(2024-05-31)This dissertation focuses on exploring maternity in the United States and its associations with healthcare use, healthcare spending, and social policies. Chapter 1. The association between New York's Paid Family Leave ... -
Essays at the Intersection of Development and Education Economics
(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
(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
(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 at the Intersection of Labor and Crime Economics
(2024-05-09)This series of papers focuses on understanding the decision-making processes and incentive systems facing key decision-makers in the U.S. criminal justice system and labor market, as well as how those decisions interact ... -
Essays Exploring Urban Violence
(2016-08-18)Despite continued interest in understanding the problem of urban violence in the United States, fundamental scholarly and policy-relevant questions remain regarding the nature of urban violence, its consequences, and the ... -
Essays in Access to Civil Justice
(2014-06-06)In this three-article dissertation, I explore access to civil justice issues from several dimensions. Existing data tells us that poor households are significantly less likely than moderate- and high-income households to ... -
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Education
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays. First, we explore the implications of correlations that do not vanishing for units in different clusters for the actual and estimated precision of least squares estimators. -
Essays in Applied Economics
(2022-09-16)This dissertation consists of three exercises in economics. -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-06)This dissertation contains three chapters. Each applies the tools of applied microeconomics to questions in labor economics, the economics of education, and social economics, respectively. In the first chapter, which is ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2012-08-10)Chapter 1 develops a model of parallel trading of corporate securities (shares, bonds) and derivatives in which a large trader can sometimes profitably acquire securities and the corporate control rights inherent therein ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in labor economics and political economy. -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2015-02-02)This dissertation collects three pieces of work. The first chapter documents empirically how Danish households substituted between insurance and liquidity, namely how the up-take of unemployment insurance fell when credit ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2016-05-11)This thesis combines three essays in applied microeconomics. The first essay studies hospital responses to price changes and the introduction of DRG reimbursements; using a large administrative data set on all inpatient ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2021-09-09)This dissertation consists of three independent essays. The first essay develops an urban spatial model with heterogeneous worker groups and incorporating travel to consume non-tradable goods and services. It estimates the ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-05-13)This dissertation consists of four essays on a range of topics in urban, labor and behavioral economics. The first essay (co-authored with Benjamin Austin) studies the long run effect of Right-to-Work Laws on labor market ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-06-06)This dissertation is composed of three chapters addressing topics in health and labor economics. The first chapter characterizes how various regulatory features in a large United States health insurance market, Medicare ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2024-05-09)This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. The first essay describes a field experiment studying paternalism in anti-poverty programs. Anti-poverty programs often take the form of cash or in-kind ... -
Essays in Asset Pricing and Macroeconomics
(2017-05-13)This dissertation presents three essays. The first essay finds that investment strategies which generate “alphas” become endogenously risky by acquiring “betas” with respect to shocks that institutional arbitrageurs are ...