The social safety net provides financial security for millions of Americans, yet few studies have explored its influence on firm formation. In three papers, I …
This dissertation explores topics in applied econometrics, pursuing two main themes: inferring relationships in the presence of unobserved time-varying preferences and Bayesian estimation methods. The …
This dissertation explores topics in applied microeconomics with a particular focus on policy issues. The first chapter explores racial bias in the referral patterns of …
In this dissertation, I study three policy-relevant questions using empirical methods from applied microeconomics. In Chapter 1, I study the effect of government fine and …
This dissertation examines several topics in applied microeconomics. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) availability in Zambia on demand for …
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 …
In this dissertation, I study two policy-relevant questions using empirical methods from applied microeconomics. The first chapter is co-authored with Felipe Brugues and Javier Brugues. …
This dissertation contributes to behavioral economic theory and experimental economics with three chapters. Chapter 1 investigates how mistakes in probabilistic inference impact optimal persuasion in …
Human beings live in societies, yet we are self centered. Therefore, the collective decision making problem is, as well as being complex, of great importance. …
This dissertation investigates the long-run economic and political consequences of policy interventions. I explore two major policies undertaken by the Italian Fascist Regime during the …
The dissertation looks at the intersection of the economics of crime, policing and politics. Chapter 1 studies how police reported crime numbers respond to a …
This dissertation explores fundamental questions concerning the origins of population diversity and its implications for societal inequality, the role of a predisposition towards human capital …
This dissertation explores topics in demographic economics and inequality. Chapter 1 examines the impact of demographic change on household income inequality in the United States, …
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 studies the origins and consequences of various beliefs and biases , including the formation of attitudes and beliefs that are conducive to social …
The three chapters of this dissertation analyze how domestic and international financial markets work and how they affect firms and economic activity.The first chapter is …
This dissertation consists of various essays in econometric theory. The main part is devoted to topics at the intersection of causal inference and networks, two …
This dissertation contains three essays in econometrics. A common theme is the impact of publication bias on the statistical credibility of published research, reproducibility, and …
Economic models often involve non-separability between observed and unobserved<br/> heterogeneous characteristics of economic agents. This dissertation presents methods<br/> of identification, estimation, and inference of nonparametric …