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Essays on Individual and Collective Decision Making
(2023)
This dissertation contains three essays on individual and collective decision making. Understanding and modeling how individuals make choices is at the heart of economics. In chapter I, I empirically estimate the degree ...
Essays in Development Economics and Public Finance
(2021)
This dissertation analyzes key challenges to maximizing the impact of development policies. It focuses on three sectors - migration, taxation, and education. Each of these sectors offers massive development potential but ...
Three Essays on How Product or Social Information Increases Efficiency
(2023)
This dissertation includes three essays on how product or social information increases efficiency. Chapter 1 is an overview. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 investigate how information about product or service quality affects ...
Essays on Gender and Labor Economics
(2023)
This dissertation explores the role federal policy can play in rectifying gender inequities in labor market outcomes. The first chapter shows that federal anti-discrimination policy helped to increase women’s representation ...
Behavioral Decision-Making in Operations Management
(2022)
In this dissertation, I explore the role of human decision-making in operations management. In the
first part of the dissertation, I compare the performance of teams and individuals in two canonical
operational settings ...
Essays in Housing and Public Finance
(2022)
This dissertation contains three essays that use reduced form techniques to examine how taxation shapes residential housing markets. Chapter I studies how homebuyers responded to changes in the US federal tax treatment of ...
On Information Policy Design and Strategic Interactions
(2022)
My dissertation investigates the design of information policy in three different types of strategic interactions:
Chapter 1: "Performance Evaluation Design in Dynamic Incentive Contracts", examines how to motivate ...
Essays in Public Finance and Taxation
(2022)
This dissertation analyzes individual behavioral responses to tax policy and administration. All three chapters use administrative tax microdata to assess the intended and unintended consequences of policies whose goals ...
Essays on Housing and Demography
(2023)
This dissertation is an analysis of policy issues and historical patterns in housing markets and their connections to the demographic attributes of households. Chapter 1 studies Houston's significant reduction of the minimum ...
Essays in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics
(2022)
Despite their wide use in empirical applications, traditional econometric tools may perform poorly in applied work, as the difficulties faced by researchers in applied work are often overlooked through reasonings that ...