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 …
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 investigate the economic consequences of travel costs in a conflicted and developing country setting, and advance the application of nighttime lights satellite imagery for …
When implementing health policies and programs, policy makers and organizations have to take into account not only the direct and intended effects of these policies …
The first paper of my dissertation provides an empirical test of the quantity and quality trade-off of children within a household. I use China census …
This dissertation examines several standard testing problems under the nonstandard condition that the true parameter vector is near or at the boundary of the parameter …
The first chapter examines how district size affects the bargaining power of teachers unions and the allocation of school resources. Our identification strategy exploits the …