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Essays in Law and Economics
(2023)
Chapter 1: This chapter uses theoretical and empirical methods to understand the most common reason employers report reluctance to hire workers with a criminal record: legal liability generated by the tort of negligent ...
Essays on Firm Dynamics
(2020)
Firm size distributions and firm dynamics have important implications for macroeconomic outcomes, particularly aggregate productivity through effects on allocation of human and physical capital. This dissertation evaluates ...
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(2022)
The first chapter, co-authored with Christian Posso, examines the impact of changes in corporate credit supply on employment and wages outside of financial-crisis episodes. We construct an rich employee-employer-credit-bank ...
Essays in Industrial Organization with Disaggregate Data
(2020)
This dissertation presents several empirical and methodological results in industrial organization, with a focus on settings with microdata or lightly aggregated data. Chapter 1 estimates a model of search and price ...
Essays on Field Experiments in Behavioral Economics
(2022)
This dissertation contains three essays in behavioral and experimental economics based on three field experiments. Chapter 1 provides an overview. The discussions in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are both framed around the ...
The Effects of Place on Economic Inequality
(2023)
This dissertation examines the relationship between local labor and housing market disparities and inter-generational wealth inequality in the United States. It consists of papers that collectively contribute to our ...
Essays on Information Economics
(2022)
This dissertation contains three essays on information economics that
aim to understand the value and cost of information in the context of individual decision making and strategic interaction.
Chapter 1 investigates how ...
Essays on College Majors and the Labor Market
(2022)
This dissertation studies the labor market outcomes of college graduates. The choice of college major is one of the most direct ways for college graduates to acquire skills and earnings differences between college majors ...
Essays on Health, Human Rights, and Social Development
(2023)
Spanning diverse perspectives, the five chapters of this dissertation relate to health, human rights, and social development. Broadly speaking, the first two chapters center on the supply side of healthcare provision in ...
Incorporating Biodiversity into Food Systems Modeling: Fisheries-Nutrition Linkages in Ghana
(2023)
Food systems in low- and middle-income countries are rapidly transforming due to population growth, urbanization, rising consumer incomes, and changes to built and natural environments. These trends are associated with a ...