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Survey Measurement of Income Tax Rates.
(2014)
Despite widespread use of tax rate variables in both micro and macro-economic research, measurement of income tax rates has largely been ignored. When tax returns are unavailable, income variables are used to compute tax ...
Essays on Law and Economics, Economics of Education, and Public Economics.
(2013)
The three chapters of this dissertation investigate three vastly different questions, bound together by the tools of economic analysis used to answer each. Chapter 1 is a theoretical model that looks at the behavior of ...
Financial Accounting Consequences of Temporary Tax Law: Evidence from the R&D Tax Credit.
(2013)
This paper investigates the extent to which extensions of a temporary tax law reduce market participants’ ability to predict and understand corporate earnings. Examining evidence from eight separate extensions of the R&D ...
Essays on Local Impact of International Trade.
(2016)
In my dissertation I study how changes in international trade policies affect economic or institutional outcomes. I focus on local geographical regions as the unit of analysis, and analyze the variation of economic and ...
Essays on Multinationals and International Spillovers.
(2016)
The essays in this dissertation examine the causes and consequences of international spillovers and globalization, with a focus on the role of multinational firms. Chapter 1, joint with Christoph E. Boehm and Aaron Flaaen, ...
Three Essays in the Economics of Unemployment and Aging.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the experiences of workers who lose their jobs. In particular, the three chapters consider the design of unemployment insurance (UI) programs and the unique aspects of facing unemployment near ...
Barriers to and Incentives for Health Behaviors among African Women.
(2015)
This dissertation looks at health behaviors of African women and the way those behaviors are affected by information, incentives, peers, and own past experiences.
This first chapter causally evaluates the relative ...
Three Essays in Health Policy Evaluation.
(2014)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the effect of the introduction of Medicaid between 1966 and 1970 on infant and child mortality rates. I exploit the federal requirement that Medicaid cover all cash welfare ...
Three Essays on Strategic Behavior and Policy.
(2015)
This dissertation contains three chapters that study the strategic behavior of economic agents in environments shaped by legal and regulatory policy. Two chapters examine strategic behavior as it pertains to the market ...
Essays on Household Balance Sheets and Consumption.
(2014)
This dissertation seeks to understand the relationships between monetary policy, housing
markets, and household consumption behavior. The three chapters establish a causal relationship
between these variables using ...