This dissertation investigates the role of institutions in mitigating the effects of adverse shocks to health and how adverse shocks to health in turn, impact …
This dissertation is composed of three chapters on agriculture in developing countries. Each of these three chapters seeks to understand how market institutions shape farmers …
Prescription drug abuse is America's fastest-growing drug problem, with overdose deaths from opioid pain relievers increasing by 313% from 1999 to 2010. The research described …
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 …
This dissertation provides three contributions to better measure, classify and understand bounded rationality from a revealed preferences perspective. The first chapter proposes a measure of …
This dissertation examines some of the distinctive features of business taxation in middle-income countries. Chapter 1 studies the role of firms acting as tax collectors …
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 …
This dissertation asks how structured, local communication among consumers affects markets where those consumers interact with firms who would like to sell to them, when …
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 studies economic geography, environment, and political economy issues in developing countries. Chapter 1 studies the conservation of tropical forests. To derive policies that …
This dissertation studies econometric models of no-arbitrage in the subject areas of asset pricing and monetary policy. Chapter 1, "Recovering the Historical Distribution from State …
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 …
In this dissertation I examine the effects that a poverty-alleviating cash transfer administered in Pakistan for the past ten years, the Benazir Income Support Program …
In this dissertation I develop a framework for efficient estimation of dynamic moment models containing variables that are not observed by the researcher. I characterize …
This paper measures both the correlation and causal relationship between startups and urban economic growth in the U.S. over the past thirty years. Correlation results …
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 …
