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Essays on social insurance program design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis studies the causal impacts of social insurance program design on household behavior and program-relevant outcomes. Each paper considers a major design feature of a large social insurance program - work requirements, ...
Essays is bank competition and credit policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis estimates the eect of competition in the financial sector using both individual level data and economic theory, and explores the role of credit policy in mitigating potential adverse effects of imperfect ...
Essays on innovation in health care markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters on innovation in health care markets. The first chapter examines incentives in pharmaceutical innovation; the second explores selection in the response to recommendations in health ...
Essays on behavioral economics and macroeconomics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters in behavioral economics and macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I develop an approach, which I term narrow thinking, to break the decision maker's ability to perfectly coordinate ...
Essays on the term structure of equity returns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This dissertation contains three essays on the term structure of equity returns. In the first chapter I document substantial variation in the cross-section of the term premium of US stocks between 1996 and 2019. I introduce ...
Essays on nominal rigidities, bounded rationality, and macroeconomic policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters about macroeconomic policy. In the first chapter, I study the empirical relationship between nominal rigidities and the real effects of monetary policy. Nominal rigidities lie at the ...
Essays on physician innovation and practice style in healthcare markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
This thesis consists of three chapters on technological innovation, diffusion, and practice style among physicians. The first chapter investigates the effect of age on a surgeon's propensity to use new medical procedures. ...
Essays on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand. The first chapter analyzes the non-linear response of durable spending to income shocks. Empirically, the average ...
Essays on the empowerment and employment of women in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three papers on the empowerment and employment of women in India. India's female labor force participation rate is among the lowest in the world. Research suggests many women in India want to work, ...
Essays on the political economy of development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters which address different questions about the political economy of development. In the first chapter, Natala Garbiras-Díaz and I study whether crowdsourcing technologies aimed at ...