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Essays on International Worker Mobility
(2021)
In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of international labor migration in different parts of the world.
In the first chapter, I examine how migrants in the United Kingdom adjust their labor supply in response ...
Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization
(2020)
This dissertation studies competition in the pharmaceutical and airline industries, focusing on two types of firm conduct: advertising and pricing. In the following chapters, I apply econometric models to novel datasets ...
Essays in the Economics of Education
(2021)
This dissertation studies the reasons for and consequences of different choices in human capital investment. The theme connecting the three essays is a desire to understand reasons for inequality in educational choices and ...
Behavioral Market Design for Social Good
(2021)
Market design studies allocation rules of marketplaces, institutions, and economic environments. In addition to solving the equilibrium solution for rational agents in strategic environments, real-world market design ...
Essays on Generational Economic Links Between Childhood and Adulthood
(2021)
My dissertation examines the economic links between people's experiences in early and later-life. It offers new empirical evidence on the effect of income in infancy on later-life outcomes, and investigates the performance ...
Essays on the Economics of Human Capital
(2020)
An extensive literature documents the instrumental role of early childhood in improving individuals' life chances. This dissertation consists of three connected chapters that study the effects of early childhood circumstances ...
Employer Learning, Biased Beliefs, and Labor Market Discrimination
(2021)
My dissertation proposes and tests a new theory of labor market discrimination based on employers developing persistent negatively biased beliefs about the productivity of worker groups through their hiring experiences ...
Three Essays in the Public Economics of Perception and Belief
(2020)
My dissertation studies three cases in which the perception of current policy or beliefs about future policy shaped economic decisions. Issues of attention and beliefs about the future can have tremendous importance both ...
Three Enquiries Concerning Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration
(2020)
Hospitals and physicians in the United States increasingly work together under common ownership. Over the past decade, physicians have gravitated toward employment at hospital-owned facilities and hospitals have acquired ...
Essays in Public Finance and Taxation
(2021)
This dissertation uses administrative tax data to study behavioral responses to taxation and tax enforcement. Chapter I focuses on the two tax penalties associated with Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Chapter II ...