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State and Local Economic Policy in Equilibrium
(2021)
This dissertation studies a subset of state and local economic policy issues and their interactions with federal government policy in the United States, in macroeconomic and general equilibrium models. The first chapter ...
Essays in Industrial Organization
(2021)
This dissertation contains three essays in industrial organization economics that use theoretical, reduced-form, and structural analysis to examine various effects of policies and market mechanisms in concentrated industries. ...
Three Essays on Worker-Firm Dynamics
(2020)
This dissertation uses three different sources of matched employer-employee (MEE) data to study how firm-level heterogeneity influences workers’ labor market outcomes. Chapters I and II deal with implicit contracts or ...
Essays in Industrial Organization
(2022)
One theme of industrial organization is to understand firm behavior and its implication on market outcomes. This dissertation studies two firm behaviors that are closely related to competition: self-preferencing in digital ...
Essays in Development Economics
(2021)
This dissertation presents three essays in a variety of areas within development economics. In the first essay, Colonial Institutions and Public Education in India, I provide micro-evidence on the persistent adverse impacts ...
Essays in Public Finance and Political Economy
(2021)
This dissertation studies how the interactions between different levels of government influence the distribution of transfers to local governments and local taxation focusing in particular on the role of strategic policy ...
Changes in Spending, Risk Selection, and the Response of Frontline Clinicians: Understanding Performance Mechanisms in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
(2021)
Confronted by an increasingly expensive and fragmented health care system, public and private payers have established a series of reforms designed to lower costs and improve quality. A leading example is the Medicare Shared ...
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 ...