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Three Essays on the Economics of Changing Behavior With Costly Policy Instruments.
(2015)
Attempts to influence individual behavior with public policy are numerous and diverse. The analysis of Pigouvian taxation famously proves that each behavior to be controlled can be analyzed and the optimal policy determined ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...