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Three essays on econometrics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis consists of three chapters that cover separate topics in econometrics. The first chapter demonstrate a negative result on the asymptotic sizes of subset Anderson- Rubin tests with weakly identified nuisance ...
The determinants of political behavior : evidence from three randomized field experiments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
My dissertation explores the political behavior of different groups, including immigrants, the youth, and uneducated and marginalized citizens - focusing on their registration and turnout decisions, as well as vote choices, ...
Regulation of public health insurance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The first chapter takes advantage of the evolution of the regulatory and pricing environment in the first years of a large federal prescription drug insurance program for seniors - Medicare Part D - to explore interactions ...
Optimal taxation with endogenous wages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis consists of three chapters on optimal tax theory with endogenous wages. Chapter 1 studies optimal linear and nonlinear income taxation when firms do not know workers' abilities, and competitively screen them ...
Essays in health economics and productivity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The first chapter studies how incentives drive adoption by looking at a technology that generates revenue for hospitals: the practice of submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a 2008 reform, hospitals were ...
Essays in the industrial organization of the pharmaceutical industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This dissertation comprises of three chapters, each exploring different issues in the industrial organization of the pharmaceutical industry. In the first chapter, I study the effects of television advertising of antidepressants ...
Essays in weak identification
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Economic researchers and policymakers need reliable tools both to estimate economic relationships and to measure the uncertainty surrounding their estimates. Unfortunately, economic data sometimes contains limited information ...
The political economy of government interventions in financial crises
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Chapter 1 examines how political economy considerations affect the desirability of banking unions. It presents a model in which bank recapitalizations are carried out by rent-seeking policymakers. These policymakers face ...
Essays in credit markets and development economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Chapter 1 (co-authored with Ali Choudhary) exploits exogenous variation in the amount of public information available to banks about a firm to empirically evaluate the importance of adverse selection in the credit market. ...
Essays in economic development and education
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the market for private school. Private school market shares are rising steadily in many developing countries, but we have a limited understanding of how private schools set ...