This dissertation consists of three chapters studying health, human capital, and innovation in the United States. In the first chapter, I show evidence that recent …
Socioeconomic disparities between social groups constitute a challenge in many countries around the world. While overt discrimination practices have diminished over the last decades, the …
I estimate productivity gains from iodine deficiency eradication. I look at the historical experience of Switzerland and the United States, where iodine deficiency was endemic …
This dissertation consists of three essays on the economics of coordination under bounded rationality. The coordination problem is a long-standing research agenda to investigate how …
We study network formation in a fidelity mating economy with two types of agents (e.g., men and women). Each enjoys having relationships with the opposite …
This paper examines whether national soccer team performance impacts attitudes towards minorities in European countries in the short-term. We combine individual-level survey data with information …
This dissertation consists of two chapters: “Intergenerational Mobility in the 1920-1940 United States” and “Segregation, the Great Migration, and African American Outcomes: 1920-1990.” Both papers …
The first chapter examines how district size affects the bargaining power of teachers unions and the allocation of school resources. Our identification strategy exploits the …
This dissertation studies household, labor and political economy issues in developing countries. Chapter 1 estimate the effects of randomly disclosing spousal income on productivity in …
This dissertation studies the economics behind two major education policy questions faced by many developing country governments. The first two chapters study the government policy …
The three chapters of the dissertation illustrate the interplay between financial and labor markets. The chapters examine how removal of geographical restrictions on bank branching …
In the immediate aftermath of natural disasters, what are the key challenges for international aid communities? To pin down the constraints for improving the effectiveness …
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 …
My dissertation is to use the Regression Discontinuity method to study the topics in urban and labor economics. The first chapter evaluates the effects of …
The dissertation consists of three papers in Bayesian econometrics. In Chapter 1, "Asymptotic Properties of Bayesian Inference in Linear Regression with a Structural Break", we …
This dissertation is composed of three essays in development economics. The first investigates the effect of rural economic growth brought about by migration and remittances …
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first two chapters study the impact of legal status on legalized immigrant households. IRCA, the biggest amnesty program …
The dissertation looks at political economy broadly through three different lenses. Chapter 1 studies the consequences of immigrant enfranchisement by exploiting Romania's accession to the …
This dissertation builds on recent advancements in the collection and measurement of neighbourhood and city-level outcomes to examine urban economic phenomena. Chapter 1 examines the …