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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 Labor and Public Economics
(2016-05-18)
This dissertation studies labor and public economics. Chapter 1 is titled “How Does Unemployment Affect Consumer Spending?” and is coauthored with Pascal Noel. We study the spending of unemployed individuals using anonymized ...
Five Essays on Labor and Public Economics
(2016-05-09)
It is important to understand the individual behavioral responses to public policies and the corresponding social consequences because they are key parameters to evaluate and design efficient social policies. In this ...
Essays on Public Health Insurance
(2016-04-26)
Over the last ten years there have been dramatic changes in the health insurance environment in the United States, spurred on by broad reforms in the public health insurance sector. In 2006 the Medicare Prescription Drug, ...
Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development
(2015-05-19)
This dissertation seeks to identify causes and consequences of some of the most complex social phenomena, such as civil conflict and climate change. In the first essay I draw on existing theories of labor coercion (Acemoglu ...
Essays on Heterogeneity in Markets and Games
(2015-04-23)
Many markets exhibit substantial heterogeneity -- e.g.~in ability, in preferences, in products, in strategies. Allowing for this (sometimes multi-dimensional) heterogeneity can change both the theoretical predictions of ...
Essays on Development Economics
(2015-05-18)
This dissertation studies agricultural technology adoption, child labor and development. Although adoption of fertilizers has been high in South Asia, farmers may fail to use it efficiently. Besides higher costs incurred ...