This dissertation identifies and explains a number of fundamental changes in the postwar US economy. In Chapter 1, I formalize and quantify the secular stagnation …
The three chapters in this dissertation seek to understand, each of them with a particular focus, how deeply-rooted historical factors have shaped comparative development across …
This dissertation examines the implications of envy for the interplay between economic development, institutions, and culture. It offers a unified theoretical framework which shows how …
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 investigates the long-run economic and political consequences of policy interventions. I explore two major policies undertaken by the Italian Fascist Regime during the …
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 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 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 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 contains three chapters. In the first chapter, I study the effect of a seven-minute face-to-face conversation on trust and other-regarding preferences. I find …
Three essays compose this dissertation. The first essay is an empirical investigation of the origins of social trust. I examine how, over the course of …
I investigate the economic consequences of travel costs in a conflicted and developing country setting, and advance the application of nighttime lights satellite imagery for …
This dissertation studies the geographical, technological, and cultural determinants of comparative economic development. The first chapter constructs new measures of distance and transportation costs for …
This dissertation is comprised of three self-contained chapters on measurement, causes, and consequences of secular macroeconomic trends of the United States postwar economy. In the …
This dissertation studies the determinants and consequences of multinational production and offshoring. Chapter 1 focuses on the effect of corporate income taxation on firms' location …
My dissertation consists of the following three chapters relating to stabilization policy in the presence of transitory or permanent liquidity traps, that is, periods when …
This dissertation explores the institutional and cultural origins of economic development in the long run and seeks to answer some of the important questions of …
This dissertation consists of three chapters that explore the interplay between cultural, political, and historical factors in shaping contemporary economic and social landscapes of countries …
This dissertation examines potential avenues for improving neonatal health in a cost-efficient manner. Chapter 1 evaluates the impacts of a Texas-based policy aimed at curbing …
This dissertation offers insight into the effect of regulation on various aspects of growth and development. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation generated by deregulatory events, I …