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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 ...
Three Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Prices
(2018)
To understand the workings of the macroeconomy, it is not enough to simply focus on the movements of the aggregate variables of the economy. It is necessary to also understand the behavior of its various components and ...
Exploring Work Perceptions in High Poverty Schools: Middle School Teachers' Thriving, Vitality, and Learning at Work
(2018)
The teaching profession has both retention and recruitment problems. High teacher turnover, paired with teacher shortages, has and will prove costly for all schools, particularly those in high poverty areas. Research in ...
Three Essays in International Economics
(2019)
The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay presents a model where policies that reduce frictions in the labor market affect the distribution of welfare changes stemming from trade. I evaluate this mechanism ...
Essays on Places and Economic Inequality
(2018)
This dissertation uses changes across space to understand economic inequality. Chapter one examines people’s ties to places. If people are tied to places by family and experiences, then welfare will be less equal across ...
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 ...
Essays in College Course-Taking
(2017)
While college major choices are consequential, students do not know their capacity to perform in academic and non-academic environments related to those majors, and may not be prepared to take the classes for those majors. ...
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 ...
Architecture of Choice: Exploring the Impact of Built Environments on Consumer Behavior
(2017)
Every day, we are continually exposed to various architectural features in our living and working settings—by the spatial configuration, furniture, lighting, acoustics and views in our homes and offices. Although we may ...
Efficient Real-time Policies for Revenue Management Problems
(2018)
This dissertation studies the development of provably near-optimal real-time prescriptive analytics solutions that are easily implementable in a dynamic business environment. We consider several stochastic control problems ...