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Data, Trust, and Transparency in Personalized Advertising.
(2016)
Advertising wields the power to change the way we see and experience the world and how we perceive those around us. Though marketing practices have long been characterized by information asymmetry, with individuals unable ...
Essays on Individual and Collective Decision Making
(2023)
This dissertation contains three essays on individual and collective decision making. Understanding and modeling how individuals make choices is at the heart of economics. In chapter I, I empirically estimate the degree ...
The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
Being in Relation: Achieving Mutuality in Moments of Play
(2017)
Human connection is an innate human need. More than that, it is a rich source of life satisfaction, the purest expression of our humanity, and only in moments of human connection do we fully come into being. Such moments ...
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 ...