Pakes, ArielSaxena, Sagar2023-06-0220232023-05-122023-05Saxena, Sagar. 2023. Essays on State Interventions and Market Outcomes in Developing Economies. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.30492491https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37375857This thesis consists of three essays which empirically analyze the equilibrium effects of various state interventions in markets in developing countries. The first essay studies the effects of a bundle of large-scale agricultural interventions in India, focusing on their distributional impact on farmers and consumers. The second essay quantifies the economic costs of protectionist industrial policy interventions in the utility-scale solar sector in India. The third essay examines the aggregate and distributional effects of different public healthcare provision strategies in India. Each essay develops and estimates a context-specific structural model of the relevant market, that is then used to evaluate counterfactuals and generate policy insights.application/pdfenEconomicsThesis or Dissertation2023-06-020009-0002-0378-6910