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Essays on International Economics and Applied Econometrics
(2018-04-10)
This dissertation comprises three essays on the economics of international trade and econometrics of treatment effects. Chapter One, based on work with Xavier Jaravel, studies the distributional effects of international ...
Essays on Development, Finance, and International Law
(2018-04-17)
This dissertation presents three chapters about development, finance, and international law. The first chapter investigates the effect of human rights litigation on market valuations of publicly traded defendants. I find ...
Essays on the Political Economy of Development
(2018-05-11)
This dissertation examines how variation in institutions, such as property rights, and cultural norms, such as trust, affect development in Central America and Central Africa. The first chapter of the dissertation examines ...
Adding Value to Value-Added: Theory and Applications to Teachers and Bureaucrats
(2018-01-17)
Value-added estimators are extensively used to study teachers and other groups. In addition to estimating an individual's causal impact on outcomes, value-added models describe the dispersion of individual effects: For ...
Essays on Globalization
(2018-05-11)
International trade has vastly changed over the last couple of decades with production processes becoming increasingly fragmented across country borders and production stages. This thesis studies the supply chain networks ...
Essays in Housing Economics
(2018-05-11)
Political debate around land use in cities often proceeds from the counterintuitive premise that housing development reduces affordability. In my first chapter I show that in Boston, the decision to approve a multifamily ...
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 in International Trade and Economic Geography
(2018-05-13)
This dissertation consists of three essays in the field of international trade and economic geography. The first essay develops a “market access” approach in an inter-regional trade framework to study the distribution of ...
Essays on Industrial Organization and Innovation
(2018-05-11)
In my dissertation, I explore policy-relevant topics in the pharmaceutical industry and in the intellectual property system.
In Chapter 1, I begin by studying prescription drug demand, and argue that standard cross-sectional ...
Essays in Financial and Political Economics
(2018-05-15)
In chapter 1, I show that investors' tendency to extrapolate from past return data is in part driven by the salience of past returns. I exploit the Wall Street Journal's historical practice of reporting the 52-week return ...