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Rags to Riches: Occupation and Utility Transmission in the United States
(2016-06-22)
This paper uses nationally representative survey data on income, occupation, and happiness from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the General Social Survey to show that occupation has significant effects on intergenerational ...
Wrong Turns and Right Tails: Identifying Detours in New York City Taxi Rides
(2018-06-29)
Credence goods are economic goods whose quality is difficult for consumers to verify due to information asymmetry. An example of a credence good is a taxicab ride. This paper presents a novel methodology of evaluating the ...
Taxation, Corruption, and Engagement With the Formal State: Experimental Evidence From the D.R. Congo
(2018-05-13)
Few countries achieve peace and prosperity without a capable and accountable government. Political scientists and historians have documented the consolidation of modern nation states in Europe, and the emergence of accountable ...
Essays in Industrial Organization and Econometrics
(2017-05-09)
This thesis includes two essays in Industrial Organization and one in Econometrics. The first two essays study the returns to the scale of data available to firms and its impact on market structure, using actual firm data ...
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 in Monetary Policy With Informational Frictions
(2018-05-16)
This dissertation presents three essays addressing the role of informational frictions in monetary policy. In particular, motivated by the observation that central banks around the world are often concerned about their ...
Essays in Urban Economics and Development
(2018-05-13)
This dissertation comprises three essays at the intersection of Urban and Development Economics. The first chapter explores whether well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also hold in three large developing ...
Money Illusion and Attitudes Toward Trade
(2018-06-29)
This paper argues that being susceptible to money illusion, namely the tendency to think of monetary values in nominal terms rather than real terms, may lead American consumers to hold less favorable impressions of ...
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 Financial Economics
(2017-05-16)
My dissertation is composed of three papers in financial economics. In the first essay, “Credit Migration and Covered Interest Rate Parity,” I document economically large and persistent discrepancies in the pricing of ...