This dissertation is composed of three chapters on agriculture in developing countries. Each of these three chapters seeks to understand how market institutions shape farmers …
This dissertation provides three contributions to better measure, classify and understand bounded rationality from a revealed preferences perspective. The first chapter proposes a measure of …
This paper measures both the correlation and causal relationship between startups and urban economic growth in the U.S. over the past thirty years. Correlation results …
Abstract of ESSAYS IN APPLIED MICROECONOMICS, by AURORA ALEJANDRA RAMÍREZ ÁLVAREZ, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017 Essays in Applied Microeconomics contains two main chapters written …
This dissertation concentrates on topics in development economics and applied microeconomic theory. I focus on understanding the relationship between credit access and natural resource management, …
This dissertation comprises of three self-contained chapters on macroeconomic policy when the nominal interest rate is bounded by an effective lower bound - a scenario …
This dissertation studies determinants of cooperation in social dilemma experiments. To study the effects of time preferences and information about others' pro-social behavior on cooperation, …
This dissertation evaluates the impact of environmental determinants of health and studies how successful governmental policy can be in mitigating these health effects. Chapters 1 …
This dissertation tackles demand estimation in a big-data context from multiple perspectives. Chapter 1 (“Model Selection and Estimation with the Constrained Adaptive Elastic Net”) proposes …
This dissertation studies Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) models when the number of moments is allowed to diverge with the sample size and its application …
This dissertation shows how mobile phone data can be used in order to study the consequences of short term population movement. All three chapters use …
This paper investigates the question of how current economic models driving policies perpetuate inequality. I analyze three policies that I use as case studies: taxation, …
This dissertation develops quantitative spatial equilibrium models for the agricultural sector to study returns to agricultural research, trade with China and deforestation in Brazil. The …
