This thesis investigates the effectiveness of the implementation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVHAA) through case studies of New York and Pennsylvania. The MVHAA …
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 …
Over 20 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adults and 1.2 million same-sex couples live in the United States. Despite increases in visibility and …
Over the past forty years, people with disabilities have experienced dramatic social change. One of the strongest indicators of their changing status is the increase …
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 …
During the 1960s era of decolonization, the Chinese and Tanzanian governments framed the close relationship between them in the relational language of anti-imperial “friendship.” The …
Income inequality has risen steadily since the mid-20th century, while the current concentration of wealth in the hands of the 0.1% rivals that of 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 …
The Internet is increasingly important to urban life, but Internet service in American cities is overpriced and slower than it should be. Even though it …
This dissertation examines the everyday life of the “untouchables” (dalits) in contemporary India. While legal discourses in India have long abolished untouchability, the majority of …
This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters studying the causes and consequences of inequality in macroeconomics. In the first co-authored chapter, we study the distributive …
The US education system is littered with achievement and opportunity gaps. For decades research has studied the inequalities between schools, focusing substantially on resource gaps …
This dissertation attends to an emergent empirical puzzle. Contrary to the overarching rollback of social welfare assistance that has characterized the U.S. public sector over …
Financialization of economies implies a structural transformation in capitalism such that traditional sources for accumulating capital and deriving income—that is, industrial production and trade—are increasingly …
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 immigration enforcement system is central to the stratification of young Latino men. I evaluate the consequences of the immigration system—via nativity and the legal …