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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 ...
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 ...
Land, Labor and Technology: Essays in Development Economics
(2015-05-17)
Many of the world's rural poor make a living from agriculture. Consequently, the productivity of agriculture and non-agricultural employment opportunities are important determinants of rural poverty and the subject matter ...
Essays at the Intersection of Environment and Development Economics
(2015-05-11)
The three essays in this dissertation explore how households in Southern Africa interact with and rely upon environmental resources. The first chapter examines the relationship between irrigation dam placement and local ...
Field Experiments in Behavioral and Public Economics
(2015-05-11)
The three essays in this dissertation present field experiments exploring phenomena in behavioral and public economics in real-world settings.
The first essay outlines a field experiment that uses mailers with peer rank ...
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 at the Intersection of Development and Education Economics
(2015-04-21)
This dissertation uses tools from economics to study three different aspects of educational markets in the developing world. In chapter 1, I analyze how competition among private schools in Pakistan affects student outcomes ...
Essays on Development Economics
(2015-05-18)
This dissertation studies agricultural technology adoption, child labor and development. Although adoption of fertilizers has been high in South Asia, farmers may fail to use it efficiently. Besides higher costs incurred ...