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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 ...
Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation
(2016-05-18)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I look at the relationship between preference sets among students in similar majors, compared with different majors, in Peru. I find that students within majors share preference ...
Behavioral and Experimental Insights on Consumer Decisions and the Environment
(2016-05-19)
In the following essays, I apply theoretical insights and experimental methods from behavioral science to address three questions at the intersection of environmental economics and consumer behavior.
In Chapter 1, I use ...
Oil and Water: Essays on the Economics of Natural Resource Usage
(2016-05-24)
As the developing world continues its pace of rapid growth and the threat of climate change intensifies, the economics of natural resource usage become increasingly important. From the perspective of both economic efficiency ...
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 ...
Three Essays on Human Capital in the Public Sector
(2016-05-16)
This dissertation presents three empirical studies on how to improve human capital in the public sector. In reverse chronological order, the essays ask who is attracted to public sector jobs (Paper 3); consider who can ...
Essays in Economic Development and Political Economy
(2016-05-17)
The three chapters in this dissertation examine aspects of the relationships between transparency, government accountability, and the quality of public services. In the first chapter, I ask how ethnic diversity, or lack ...