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Essays in Public Finance and Economic Development
(2019)
This dissertation addresses various topics in public finance that are particularly relevant for developing countries. These topics include consumption taxes, tax evasion, and rent-seeking by government officials. The first ...
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 ...
Empowerment and Exploitation: Essays in Economic History.
(2015)
The chapters of this dissertation all fall at the intersection of economic history and public policy. While the topics are historical, they all provide results that are important for policy makers.
The second chapter, ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2017)
My dissertation broadly relates to the low uptake of preventive health services in developing countries despite the services’ low cost and potential to avert subsequent catastrophic expenses. In the first two chapters, I ...
The Political Economy of Inefficient Trade Policy
(2018)
While political scientists have often noted that trade protection is an inefficient way of redistributing income between parties, given that it destroys value relative to other redistributive mechanisms (such as domestic ...
Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Adaptation to Climate Change.
(2016)
Spatial patterns of land use can be explained by traditional concepts in the economic theory of agglomeration, such as natural advantages (climate) and input-output linkages.
Chapter 1 uses a long-differences methodology ...
Three Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics
(2017)
Chapter 1: We exploit a federal oil lease lottery to examine how markets correct for initial misallocation. Lottery participants included oil companies, as well as individuals without the capital or expertise to drill for ...
Organizing for Entrepreneurship
(2021)
Why do start-ups succeed or fail to capture entrepreneurial opportunities? To address this question, my dissertation focuses on the organizational design of start-ups. To provide the intellectual foundations upon which ...
Essays in Expectation Formation and Asset Pricing
(2020)
This dissertation examines the role of investors' belief formation in asset valuation.
In the first chapter, I document that subjective bond risk premia implied by survey forecasts of future Treasury yields are acyclical ...
Essays on Growth, Globalization, and Inequality
(2023)
This set of research papers focuses on the interaction between growth, globalization, and inequality. The first chapter proposes a semi-endogenous growth model with skill-intensive technology adoption. The model addresses ...