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Essays in Environment and Labor Economics
(2017-05-10)
The relationship between climate and economic activity is an old topic with renewed policy relevance, due in large part to human-caused climate change. This dissertation provides a series of assessments of potential ...
Essays on Industry Response to Energy and Environmental Policy
(2015-05-17)
This dissertation consists of three essays on the relationship between firm incentives and energy and environmental policy outcomes.
Chapters 1 and 2 study the impact of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments on the United ...
Three Essays on Corporate Innovations
(2015-08-28)
This thesis consists of three essays on corporate R&D and innovations in the United States.
Utilizing the newly collected survey of Business Research Development and Innovations (BRDIS), the first chapter establishes ...
Participation, Power and Preferences in International Development
(2015-09-28)
Participatory development is widely touted as the remedy for ineffective and disempowering top-down development models of the past. However, participation can take many different forms, so an important open question for ...
Essays in Development Economics
(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 ...
Distinguishing Earth, Water, Fire, and Air: Factor Analysis to Determine the Four Fundamental Elements of State Capability
(2015-04-08)
While some states can send men to the moon and back, others cannot even muster the effectiveness to maintain order. Understanding what produces these differences in the capabilities of states to deliver outcomes to their ...
National Leaders and Economic Growth: What Characteristics Matter?
(2015-04-08)
This paper uses data on more than 1000 national leaders between 1875 and 2005 to examine how four key individual characteristics – military experience, being a member of a political dynasty, belonging to the ethnic majority, ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics and Innovation
(2015-01-12)
This dissertation consists of three essays, two in behavioral economics and one on the economics of innovation.
The first essay, which is joint work with Emily Glassberg Sands, exploits the randomness of weather and the ...
Essays in Experimental and Labor Economics
(2015-01-20)
In Chapter 1, I propose a growth theory-based framework for analyzing experimental research in the social sciences. I apply a number of variations of the two standard growth models---Solow-Swan model, and the Schumpeterial ...
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 ...