This dissertation studies the relationship between economic growth and natural resources. Chapter one investigates the role of technological progress in limiting the amount of energy …
This dissertation studies how schools respond to the school accountability program in North Carolina. The first chapter tests the predictions of a Bayesian model of …
In this dissertation, I study three questions in empirical industrial organization and machine learning. In the first chapter, I study the interdependence of retail demand. …
This dissertation analyzes how air pollution affects manufacturing productivity in India and the degree to which industries vary in their sensitivity to air pollution. Determining …
Three essays comprise this dissertation, which uses experimental methods to study economic questions. The first chapter contributes to the understanding of people’s willingness to lend …
I study experimentally (1) the impacts that a democratic process has on people?s behaviors and (2) the endogenous formation of institutions in social dilemmas.The democratic …
This dissertation tackles gender-based price discrimination, education, and child well-being. Chapter 1 conducts a field experiment to identify gender-based discrimination and how it varies with …
In this dissertation, I contribute to the growing body of evidence on the behavior and impacts of direct government intervention in finance through government ownership …
This dissertation studies three different topics, all of which are relevant to health economics. Chapter 1 studies how home pregnancy tests give early fertility information …
This dissertation examines the effects of health care policy on access to health care and health outcomes, use of medical technology, and educational attainment. The …
This dissertation is comprised of three self-contained chapters on the determinants of economic development over the medium-to-long run. In the first chapter, I examine how …
This dissertation is composed of two self-contained chapters, exploring topics in Labor Economics. Both papers broadly explore the question of how we define labor markets. …
This dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters connected to the financial crisis and its aftermath. The first chapter investigates the effect of higher capital requirements …
This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters studying households and their interactions with the labor market. In the first chapter, I study the determinants of …
This dissertation explores the effects of monetary policy on price dynamics, price dispersion, and inequality. In the first chapter, an efficient algorithm is introduced to …
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 extends the traditional model of mechanism design by considering boundedly rational agents and by considering a planner facing restrictions on the class of …
