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Essays on the Role of Banks in the Macroeconomy
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation consists of four essays that explore the interaction between banks and the supply of safe assets in the macroeconomy.
Essays on Unemployment and Labor Supply
(2014-06-06)
Contrary to the predictions of standard reservation-wage search models, empirical studies consistently find that an extension of UI increases unemployment duration \textit{without} improving subsequent wages. Chapter 1 ...
Essays on Asset Pricing and Econometrics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three essays on asset pricing and econometrics. The first chapter identifies rare events and long-run risks simultaneously from a rich data set (the Barro-Ursua macroeconomic data set) and evaluates ...
Essays on Political Economy, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics
(2014-02-25)
The first chapter of this dissertation analyzes voting behavior across multiple elections. The voting literature has largely analyzed voter turnout and voter behavior separately, focusing on individual elections. I present ...
Essays on Normative Macro-Finance
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation consists of four essays that study normative questions on issues related to financial markets and the macroeconomy.
Essays in Health Economics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation explores situational differences in physician behavior based on detailed electronic hospital records, shedding light on previously unobservable determinants of treatment decisions and processes.
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Education
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation consists of three essays. First, we explore the implications of correlations that do not vanishing for units in different clusters for the actual and estimated precision of least squares estimators.
Essays on Gender, Intra-Household Allocation and Development
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation studies gender, intra-household allocation and development. Industrialization and globalization has expanded opportunities for women in developing countries to work in manufacturing and service sector ...
Three Essays on Social Incentives
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation studies social incentives in pro-social behavior and its various implications, including but not limited to disclosure policies, fundraising strategies and geographic polarization.
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-24)
This dissertation consists of three essays in labor economics and political economy.