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Adding Value to Value-Added: Theory and Applications to Teachers and Bureaucrats
(2018-01-17)
Value-added estimators are extensively used to study teachers and other groups. In addition to estimating an individual's causal impact on outcomes, value-added models describe the dispersion of individual effects: For ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2018-05-13)
What effects does higher patient cost sharing have on the use of mental health care, patient outcomes, and provider behavior? This dissertation explores this question by investigating the effects of a national reform in ...