Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays in Macroeconomics
(2021-05-11)My dissertation presents essays on topics in macroeconomics. In Chapter 1, I study the interplay between micro and macro uncertainty. I show that its effect on unemployment risk is the dominant transmission channel of macro ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics and Stabilization Policy
(2023-05-02)In the first essay, co-authored with Adriano Fernandes, we study the role of precautionary saving in heterogeneous-agent (HA) models. We first show that two calibrated versions of the model, one with standard and another ... -
Essays in Market Design
(2013-02-14)This dissertation consists of three essays in market design. The first essay studies a dynamic allocation problem. The second presents a new model for many-to-one matching markets where colleges are matched to a large ... -
Essays in Maternal and Child Health Economics
(2018-05-11)Overall, this dissertation studies important issues around the early years of our lives, both in developing and developed countries. With coauthors I first look at how maternity and neonatal care are influenced by what ... -
Essays in Mechanism and Market Design
(2016-04-28)This thesis consists of three essays on mechanism and market design. The first chapter studies the question of when we can eliminate investment inefficiency in a general mechanism design model with transferable utility. ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2012-07-26)If the number of individuals is odd, Campbell and Kelly (2003) show that majority rule is the only non-dictatorial strategy-proof social choice rule on the domain of linear orders that admit a Condorcet winner, an alternative ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics
(2013-02-22)This dissertation consists of three essays on microeconomics. The first two are theoretical papers that address issues in collective decision-making. The last is an experimental paper that explores gender differences in ... -
Essays in Microeconomics
(2013-02-13)This dissertation consists of three essays on microeconomics. The first essay considers matching markets, markets where buyers and sellers and concerned about who they interact with. It proposes a model to analyze these ... -
Essays in Monetary Policy
(2014-06-06)This dissertation presents three chapters addressing issues pertaining to monetary policy, information, and central bank communication. The first chapter studies optimal monetary policy in an environment where policy actions ... -
Essays in Monetary Policy With Informational Frictions
(2018-05-16)This dissertation presents three essays addressing the role of informational frictions in monetary policy. In particular, motivated by the observation that central banks around the world are often concerned about their ... -
Essays in Optimal Taxation
(2016-05-04)Policy often differs from the recommendations of theoretical optimal tax models in substantial and enduring ways. Such differences are sometimes surely because policy is suboptimal; however they may also be driven by ... -
Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation
(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 Organizational Behavior
(2015-01-21)How do organizations create an environment to motivate their employees to be healthy, productive, and competent decision makers? My dissertation identifies the underlying factors that could prevent organizations from ... -
Essays in Political Economy
(2013-02-08)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the various ways in which political activism affects policy making, drawing upon evidence from the Tea Party movement in the United ... -
Essays in Political Economy
(2017-05-05)This dissertation comprises three essays in political economy, presented as separate chapters. They share a focus on labor markets, occupational choice, and the political economy of redistribution and immigration attitudes. ... -
Essays in Political Economy
(2023-05-12)The three papers of this dissertation combine novel data sourced from archives and historical sources with empirical methodologies to generate insights with contemporary relevance to topics in political economy. In the ... -
Essays in Political Economy and Development
(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 Political Methodology
(2012-07-24)This dissertation provides three novel methodologies to the field of political science. In the first chapter, I describe how to make causal inferences in the face of dynamic strategies. Traditional causal inference methods ... -
Essays in Public and Health Economics
(2021-05-14)This dissertation contains three chapters, each with the goal of providing evidence to better inform policymaking around challenges facing a different segment of the health care system in the United States. In Chapter ... -
Essays in Public and Labor Economics
(2014-06-06)This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter estimates the crowd-out effect of Social Security on private retirement saving. In a quasi-experimental research design, I analyze the effect of the 1990 federal ...