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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The polarization of opinions, disagreement, and the lack of learning from other people are common in modern societies despite the propagation of new sources of …
This dissertation studies determinants of cooperation in social dilemma experiments. To study the effects of time preferences and information about others' pro-social behavior on cooperation, …
This dissertation explores topics in the fields of industrial organization and public economics. The first chapter investigates the role of pre-purchase information in the market …
This dissertation studies how behavioral elements can distort economic choices that individuals make. In my first chapter, I study how overconfidence, a widely documented behavioral …
This dissertation studies the use of information in Econometrics and as a tool for effort motivation. Chapter 1 considers the question of whether there exist …
Voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) public good experiments aim to analyze economic behavior of individuals in a prisoners dilemma type setting. In the most basic set-up …
This dissertation examines the ways in which history affects key contemporary development outcomes through the formation of durable social and political preferences. Chapter 1 shows …
