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    • Essays in Development and Behavioral Economics 

      Schilbach, Frank N. (2015-05-21)
      This dissertation consists of three empirical essays in development and behavioral economics. Chapter 1 considers the impact of heavy alcohol consumption on savings behavior among low-income males in India. High levels ...
    • Essays in Development and Behavioral Economics 

      Carney, Kevin (2022-05-16)
      This dissertation comprises three chapters in the fields of development and behavioral economics. Chapter 1 uses a field experiment to study the effect of social media on voters in a large election in Tamil Nadu, India. ...
    • Essays in Development and Behavioral Economics 

      Jain, Ronak (2024-05-31)
      This dissertation comprises three chapters in the fields of development and behavioral economics. Chapter 1 focuses on street vending, which is an important source of self-employment for the urban poor. I use primary ...
    • Essays in Development and Health Economics 

      Schofield, Heather Ward (2014-06-06)
      In this collection of essays I study individuals' health related decision-making and the consequences of those decisions for health and labor market productivity.
    • Essays in Development and Labor Economics 

      Aguilar Esteva, Arturo (2012-07-26)
    • Essays in Development and Political Economy 

      Bernhardt, Arielle (2023-06-01)
      This dissertation explores constraints on women's labor force participation in low-income countries, with a focus on the Indian context. The first chapter is coauthored with Patrick Agte and it centers on caste norms, ...
    • Essays in Development and Public Economics 

      Bergeron, Augustin (2021-06-10)
      This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter investigates the role of tax rates and tax enforcement in stimulating tax revenues in low-capacity settings. Using a randomized policy experiment assigning ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Bjorkegren, Daniel Ingvar (2014-06-06)
      Economic development is often associated with the adoption of new technologies. The three chapters in this dissertation ask how societies can achieve efficient adoption of these technologies. The first two chapters analyze ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Reed, Tristan (2014-06-06)
      This dissertation comprises three essays in development economics.
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Trucco, Laura Carolina (2015-09-04)
      Economic development, more often than not, is tightly connected to good governance and adequate provision of public goods and services. My dissertation examines characteristics of developing countries that are relevant to ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Lichand, Guilherme Finkelfarb (2016-05-20)
      Chapter 1 studies the effects of fighting corruption on public service delivery. While corruption crackdowns have been shown to effectively reduce missing government expenditures, their effects on public service delivery ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Singh, Niharika (2020-11-19)
      This dissertation focuses on topics concerning labor and education markets in South Asia. The first chapter, joint with A. Nilesh Fernando and Gabriel Z. Tourek, asks whether frictions in the labor recruitment process for ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Sun, Zhengyun (2021-07-12)
      This dissertation explores how firms, consumers and households in the developing world adopt digital technology and interact with each other in the digital economy. The first chapter studies how a large-scale business ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Willis, Jack (2017-05-12)
      This dissertation consists of four chapters, in two halves. The common, broad theme is the importance of time in problems which we often analyze statically. In the first half, we consider the role of time in insurance. ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Chin, Moya (2020-09-08)
      This dissertation explores the political and economic determinants of why households in developing countries have different economic outcomes. The first chapter documents how different electoral rules can lead to different ...
    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Smith, Emma (2024-05-09)
      These three essays present development economic evidence in the context of forcibly displaced populations. In Chapter One, I consider that people might withhold useful information from others to avoid being associated with ...
    • Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy 

      Casaburi, Lorenzo (2013-09-30)
      Chapter 1 studies the electoral response to the Ghost Buildings program, a nationwide anti tax evasion policy in Italy which used innovative monitoring technologies to target buildings hidden from tax authorities. The ...
    • Essays in Development Economics: Evidence on Entrepreneurship, Digitization, and Gender 

      Alhorr, Layane (2024-05-31)
      This dissertation comprises three chapters in the field of development economics, with a focus on the role of entrepreneurship and digitalization for marginalized communities. Chapters 1 and 2 are motivated by social ...
    • Essays in Dynamic Games 

      Ishii, Yuhta (2014-06-06)
      This dissertation presents three independent essays. Chapter 1, which is joint work with Mira Frick, studies a model of innovation adoption by a large population of long-lived consumers who face stochastic opportunities ...
    • Essays in Econometrics 

      Chen, Jiafeng (2024-03-26)
      This dissertation consists of three essays in econometrics. A common throughline is decision theory, defined here broadly as the formal considerations justifying, informing, or undermining choices of statistical procedures. The ...