Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays on Social Contexts and Individual Politics: The Political Influence of Religious Institutions and Ethno-Racial Neighborhood Contexts
(2013-10-08)Citizens regularly encounter social contexts that have important consequences for political behavior. This dissertation evaluates the political influence of two such environments: religious institutions and ethno-racial ... -
Essays on Social Influence in Political Economy: How Expectations and Identity Affect Pro-Social Leading and Following
(2015-05-18)By social influence I understand the change in an individual’s thoughts, feelings, attitudes or behaviors that results from interactions with another individual or group. Political, commercial and public health campaigns ... -
Essays on Social Institutions and Development
(2021-09-10)This dissertation studies the role of informal institutions in development. I focus on social institutions: those that typically preexist formal institutions and are defined by exclusive membership, seek the provision of ... -
Essays on Social Insurance
(2021-04-27)This dissertation consists of four chapters on the economics of social insurance programs. In the first chapter, Bastian Ravesteijn and I study the consequences of employer cost sharing in disability insurance. We develop ... -
Essays on Social Insurance and Healthcare
(2023-06-01)The first chapter studies menu design as a tool to improve the efficiency of selection markets. For some types of goods, individual preferences and costs are correlated, but prices cannot be used to screen consumers – ... -
Essays on State Interventions and Market Outcomes in Developing Economies
(2023-05-12)This thesis consists of three essays which empirically analyze the equilibrium effects of various state interventions in markets in developing countries. The first essay studies the effects of a bundle of large-scale ... -
Essays on Statistical Models for Text Analysis
(2023-08-02)Fully automated content analysis based on statistical models has become popular among social scientists due to its scalability. Despite their use for measurement and exploration, these models have significant shortcomings. ... -
Essays on Stock Investing and Investor Behavior
(2013-09-30)Chapter one shows that US households with high unconditional and cyclical labor income risk are more leveraged and allocate a greater share of their financial assets to stocks. I use self-reported risk preferences to show ... -
Essays on Strategy, Institutions, and Multinationals in Global Supply Chains
(2012-08-09)This dissertation investigates two major themes: (1) the strategies that global firms use to overcome weak institutions in their outsourcing and (2) how local institutions affected how firms reconfigured their global supply ... -
Essays on Student Employment
(2021-05-13)College tuition and fee rates have risen dramatically over the last twenty years. Grant aid dollars, however, have increased at a slower rate, especially at public four-year institutions, which were twice as expensive in ... -
Essays on Taxation and Real Estate
(2018-04-27)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters. In the first chapter, "Optimal Taxation in Overlapping Generations Economies with Aggregate Risk," I ask how governments should leverage available policy instruments ... -
Essays on the Allocation of Scarce Resources among Competing Ends
(2013-09-04)The first chapter of this dissertation evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and natural gas-fired electricity generating plants in the United States following state-level legislation that ended ... -
Essays on the Behavior and Performance of Retail Investors
(2022-05-19)In recent years, retail trading in stocks, cryptocurrencies and other assets has become significantly more popular, and since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the shift to a work-from-home regime, it has in many ways ... -
Essays on the Consequences of Innovative Industries
(2023-03-20)This dissertation develops novel modeling techniques, theoretical insights and empirical estimations in order to uncover a diverse set of downstream consequences from innovative industries. Chapter 1, which is co-authored ... -
Essays on the Determinants of Human Capital
(2013-02-22)This dissertation consists of three empirical essays broadly concerned with the determinants of human capital. The first essay estimates the causal effect of exposure to maternal psychological stress generated by the 9/11 ... -
Essays on the Determinants of Prosocial Behavior in Singapore
(2015-05-17)Previous research has sought to explain why people engage in prosocial behavior and undertake activities that are costly to themselves and mostly benefit others, such as volunteering and donating. My dissertation comprises ... -
Essays on the Dynamic Strategies and Skill of Institutional Investors
(2016-05-11)This dissertation studies the behavior of institutional investors, who control a large share of the world's investment capital, with the goal of shedding light on when and how those investors reveal information. Guided by ... -
Essays on the Economic and Social Consequences of Policing
(2022-05-11)This dissertation contains three essays on the economic and social consequences of policing. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the effectiveness and equity of the police's use of pedestrian stops as a crime deterrence tool. Over ... -
Essays on the Economics of Climate Change
(2012-07-25)This dissertation studies three aspects of the economics of climate change: how rising sea levels will affect coastal homeowners in Florida; how changes in weather will affect the prevalence of crime in the United States; ... -
Essays on the Economics of Contracts and Organizations
(2015-05-16)This thesis consists of three essays on the economics of contracts and organizations. The first essay studies organizational design as the allocation of decision rights, primarily focusing on its interplay with agents' ...