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The Expansion of Renewable Energy Technologies and Their Impact on Household Energy Portfolios and Sustainable Development: A Study Of Nepal
(2017)
Encouraging households to switch from traditional fuels to cleaner, modern fuels (e.g.; electricity, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), biogas) is a widespread policy focus due to its expected benefits for health and the environment. ...
Essays in International Trade and Development
(2022)
This dissertation contains three independent essays in international trade and development, with the aim of understanding the mechanisms through which trade impacts development.
The first chapter examines how market power ...
Examining the Critical Role of Social Capital in Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Study of Emerging Nonprofit Organizations.
(2016)
This qualitative study examines how individual nonprofit organizations (“NPOs”) emerge. I build on the limited empirical research by studying eight emerging NPOs in a single New Jersey county using forty qualitative ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2022)
This dissertation investigates whether healthcare decisions and health behaviors are affected by institutions and incentives, focusing on the legal system (Chapter 1), health insurance coverage (Chapter 2), and soda taxes ...
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 on the Economics of Consumerism in Health Policy
(2019)
Consumerism, the notion of giving people the ability and responsibility to make choices about cost and quality, is an increasingly popular strategy to contain health spending. Yet we lack robust knowledge about how recent ...
Three Essays in Microeconometrics
(2019)
Traditional econometric methods can perform poorly in applications. The poor performance is usually due to challenges faced by researchers conducting empirical data analysis, yet overlooked by large sample reasonings that ...
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 ...
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 ...