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Unified Price Indices for Spatial Comparisons
(2019)
This thesis proposes a method to measure fine-grained spatial differences in purchasing power. This method exploits the recent availability of computer-generated retail scanner data sets to compensate for the absence of ...
Social Preferences and the Willingness to Pay for Preventative Health Care: Evidence from Field Experiments
(2017)
This dissertation explores behavioral incentives generated by individuals making choices in peer group settings in order to assess whether these incentives can be harnessed towards improving people’s willingness to invest ...
Analysis of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments
(2018)
This dissertation studies identification, estimation, inference and experimental design for analyzing causal spillover effects in randomized experiments. Chapter II provides a nonparametric framework based on potential ...
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 ...
Labor Market Efficiency and Team Transactions in Major League Baseball
(2022)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate papers related to the player labor market and team decision making process in Major League Baseball (MLB).
The first paper focuses on the MLB labor market after the ...
Data-Driven Optimization in Revenue Management: Pricing, Assortment Planning, and Demand Learning
(2020)
This dissertation studies several problems in revenue management involving dynamic pricing, assortment selection, and their joint optimization, through demand learning. The setting in these problems is that customers’ ...
The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Advancing Partners & Communities, 2023-03)
Globally 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. One of the major reasons for high maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries is the low proportion of births attended ...
The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...