This dissertation evaluates the impact of public policies and economic conditions on human capital investment decisions. Chapter 1 examines the wide-ranging effects of subsidizing college …
Public transportation represents an important source of mobility for low-income Americans. Households are significantly less likely to own a vehicle if they are low income. …
This dissertation places risk and questions of ethics at the center of the naturalist novel of the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Arguing against the conventional …
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 …
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 extends the traditional model of mechanism design by considering boundedly rational agents and by considering a planner facing restrictions on the class of …
The dissertation is formed of two papers in international macro-finance and one paper in monetary economics. In the first paper, using data covering forty-four countries …
This dissertation studies three topics in the political economy literature: corruption, property rights and collective action.In Chapter 1, I examine the role that individuals' past …
Decision makers may experience both uncertainty and time-inconsistency in their preferences - when they choose over different possible menus of options to choose from in …
This dissertation tackles econometric problems in finance in the age of Big Data. The three chapters propose various techniques to overcome some issues caused by …
Chapter 1 analyzes how market forces in the retail market for pharmaceuticals affect utilization of health care. Specifically, I study the impact of Walmart’s $4 …
This dissertation consists of two essays studying how the exposure of banks to real estate declines impacted the availability of credit and local employment growth …
In this dissertation, I study applied market design and incomplete information problems using microeconomic theory. In Chapter 1, I explore the determinants of matching-platform users' …
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I draw together the literature on credit market failure and political commitment and propose a new channel by …
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 documents two important externalities of drug-related violence in Mexico: its effects on freedom of press that arise through the murder of journalists by …
Chapter 1 investigates the role of group procurement in targeting a distributional program. Food security programs in developing countries often provide transfers in the form …
This dissertation is composed of three essays on intergenerational transmission of inequality emphasizing the role of human capital at birth. Chapter 1 examines the role …
My dissertation analyzes the interpersonal relationships of the characters in Cervantes' prose fiction, especially Don Quijote and the Novelas Ejemplares, in terms of the theory …
Abstract of “Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1790-1840” by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015 Manufacturing Advantage …
Social media networks enable frictionless transmission of information, creating a new subject of media analysis: the meme, gathered by both an appeal to relatable affect …
What are the implications of different emergent social movements for social justice in contemporary liberal democracies? I explore this question as it relates to issues …
The struggle for economic resources and political power has played a key role in human history. Political institutions and the distribution of economic resources define …
This thesis explores the ways in which Western Cape’s provincial government has transcended South Africa’s post-apartheid developmental failures to promote patterns of labor-intensive, inclusive economic …
The poem “Grandeza mexicana” (1604) by Bernardo de Balbuena (c. 1562-1627) is one of the main components of the pantheon of cultural artifacts that defines …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 empirically examines the role of international trade, transport infrastructure, and institutions in shaping economic development and sub-national inequalities in Latin America. Each of …