Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays in Public Economics
(2021-05-07)This dissertation consists of three independent essays on public auctions.The first essay studies the impact of small order exemptions from competitive procurement on the distribution of contract sizes. The procuring entity ... -
Essays in Public Finance
(2015-05-15)My dissertation consists of three chapters on topics in public finance. Chapter 1 studies optimal disability insurance (DI) in two parts. In the first part, I show that the well-established result that DI reduces labor ... -
Essays in Public Finance and Development Economics
(2014-06-06)This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter investigates whether consumers can help governments improve firm compliance with the Value Added Tax. It exploits quasi-experimental variation from a government ... -
Essays in Public Finance and Political Economy
(2021-05-12)This dissertation consists of three essays in Public Finance and Political Economy dealing with business tax compliance in Italy and the management of natural gas infrastructures in the Greater Boston area. The first ... -
Essays in Revision Games
(2012-09-18)This dissertation consists of three essays related to revision games. The first essay proposes and analyzes a new model that we call “revision games,” which captures a situation where players in advance prepare their actions ... -
Essays in Social Economics
(2012-07-23)This dissertation consists of three essays using economic methods to understand social policy issues. The first chapter uses a regression discontinuity framework to understand how teen birth rates respond to the first college ... -
Essays in Spatial Economics and Development
(2023-05-09)This dissertation consists of three essays studying how geography and government policies related to it impact consumers and firms in developing countries. The first chapter, coauthored with Bernardus Van Doornik, studies ... -
Essays in the Economics of Education and Financial Inclusion
(2021-03-05)Consumer financial wellbeing is a universal concern. To optimize their financial health, people need effective tools for saving, borrowing, and investing, as well as income to put towards them. These tools and policies in ... -
Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology
(2014-06-06)The first chapter of this dissertation explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. While prior studies of medical innovation under regulation have found an early mover ... -
Essays in the Economics of Innovation
(2016-05-10)This dissertation examines the social and economic processes that generate innovation and distribute its rewards in society, in the context of the United States over the past twenty years. Chapters 1 and 4 investigate the ... -
Essays in the Industrial Organization of Internet Markets
(2015-05-11)This dissertation contains essays that explore the incentives, mechanisms and strategies of platforms in concentrated internet markets. The first essay studies how two-sided platforms compete and set dynamic prices. In ... -
Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development
(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 the Political Economy of Information
(2014-06-06)The primary focus of this dissertation is on information, its production and dissemination in society. In the first chapter, I explore the consequences of an increase in the number of newspapers on the quantity and quality ... -
Essays in Time Series Econometrics
(2018-04-23)In this dissertation, I address issues related to both statistical and causal inference in time series in three independent chapters. In the first chapter, coauthored with E. Lazarus and J. H. Stock, we use higher-order ... -
Essays in Urban Economics
(2014-06-06)In this set of essays, I grapple with issues related to the core questions of urban economics. Why are people so heavily clustered in urban areas? Why do some cities grow while others decline? What explains where people ... -
Essays in Urban Economics and Development
(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 Urban Economics and Industrial Organization
(2023-05-12)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters related to the provision (or underprovision) of urban retail amenities. Chapter 1 (co-authored with Daniel Stackman) asks why storefronts remain empty for more than ... -
Essays in US Fiscal Policy
(2015-04-20)This dissertation presents three chapters about US tax and spending policy. The first chapter investigates the take-up of a tax refund for corporate losses. We find that few firms claim the refund despite that it dominates ... -
Essays in Water Conservation and Water Quality Programs
(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 Adverse Selection and Access to Specialty Care in Medicaid
(2021-11-16)Public health insurance programs in the United States are increasingly administered through the use of private managed care plans. Under this arrangement, private plans compete to offer coverage to beneficiaries, and the ...