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This thesis consists of three chapters on the legal and economic organization of large-scale public institutions. Each chapter uses the tools of applied microeconomics in order to explore how the legal and organizational ...

This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter extends the recent result of Athey and Wager on the asymptotic normality of random forest estimators to a multivariate setting; in particular, we examine stability ...

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, ...

This thesis consists of three chapters. The αrst chapter and second chapter contribute to the literature on consumer search, while the third chapter analyzes the e

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis consists of three chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 study redistributive fiscal policies. Chapter 3 analyzes the role of asymmetric information in frictional labor markets. Fiscal stimulus during the Great Recession ...

This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I study downward wage rigidity. Downward wage rigidity is central to many explanations of unemployment fluctuations. In benchmark ...

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 ...

This thesis consists of three essays on diverse topics but shared emphasis on statistical models with theory and empirics. The first and third essay examines the role of cognitive limitations in understanding biases in ...