Theses - Dept. of Economics

Essays on social insurance program design

Gray, Colin(Colin Travis) (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, ...
The political dimension of labor-management relations: national trends and state level developments in Massachusetts

Saunders, Phillip. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964)
Essays on empirical macroeconomics

Hazell, Jonathon. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)

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 ...