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Three Essays on Lobbying
(2014-06-06)
My dissertation consists of three essays on lobbying activities by special interest groups. The first paper, "Ex Post Lobbying," systematically documents ex post lobbying, the process by which firms allocate resources ...
Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate Disease Control Policy
(2014-06-06)
In this dissertation I assessed three distinct policy questions: the implications of introducing a new tuberculosis diagnostic in southern Africa, the potential value of research related to HIV treatment policy in South ...
Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three papers applying health economics to the study of risky behaviors. The first uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between adverse events ...
Essays in Development Economics
(2014-06-06)
Economic development is often associated with the adoption of new technologies. The three chapters in this dissertation ask how societies can achieve efficient adoption of these technologies. The first two chapters analyze ...
Essays in Monetary Policy
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three chapters addressing issues pertaining to monetary policy, information, and central bank communication. The first chapter studies optimal monetary policy in an environment where policy actions ...
Essays in Development and Health Economics
(2014-06-06)
In this collection of essays I study individuals' health related decision-making and the consequences of those decisions for health and labor market productivity.
Finance Implications of the Great Recession
(2014-06-06)
Macroeconomic events in the United States during the last ten years—the housing bubble, the financial crisis and the subsequent, deep recession—brought several puzzles to the attention of economists and policymakers. Why ...
Essays in Dynamic Games
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three independent essays. Chapter 1, which is joint work with Mira Frick, studies a model of innovation adoption by a large population of long-lived consumers who face stochastic opportunities ...
Essays in Public and Labor Economics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter estimates the crowd-out effect of Social Security on private retirement saving. In a quasi-experimental research design, I analyze the effect of the 1990 federal ...
Revisiting Random Utility Models
(2014-06-06)
This thesis explores extensions of Random Utility Models (RUMs), providing more flexible models and adopting a computational perspective. This includes building new models and understanding their properties such as ...