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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Essays on Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality in Economic History
(2016-05-18)
This dissertation explores intergenerational mobility and inequality in the early twentieth century. The first chapter asks whether economic downturns increase or decrease mobility. I estimate the effect of the Great ...
Essays on Global Sourcing, R&D, and Bank Credit
(2016-05-18)
This dissertation consists of three essays, two in the field of international economics and one in macroeconomics.
The first essay studies the interaction of manufacturing firms' sourcing decisions and their R\&D investment. ...
Essays in Macroeconometrics
(2016-05-17)
This dissertation consists of three independent chapters on econometric methods for macroeconomic analysis. In the first chapter, I propose to estimate structural impulse response functions from macroeconomic time series ...
The Financial Channel of Wage Rigidity
(2015-05-21)
Why do firms cut hiring so sharply in recessions? This dissertation explores two answers. Chapters 1 and 2 propose a financial channel of wage rigidity, whereby wage rigidity among incumbent workers forces firms to reduce ...
Essays on Retirement, Savings and Health
(2015-05-05)
As life expectancy rises and the workforce around the developed world ages, questions about retirement, savings, and health are becoming increasingly important. Are households saving enough for retirement? What is the role ...
Essays in Industrial Organization and Econometrics
(2015-05-13)
This dissertation consists of three essays, two on estimating dynamic entry games and one on the inference for misspecified models with fixed regressors.
Big box retail stores have large impact on local economies and ...
Essays on Health Insurance and Annuities
(2015-05-14)
Insurance creates an important source of economic well-being by providing for beneficiaries in times of need. But because a variety of forces may inhibit the proper functioning of insurance markets, governments are deeply ...