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  • Essays in oil, conflict, and the development of resource-rich countries 
    Peck, Jennifer Randolph (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This thesis examines three topics in the political economy of global oil markets and the development of resource-rich countries. The first chapter examines the effect of Saudi Arabia's crude pricing policies on the political ...
  • Essays in labor economics 
    Williams, Tyler (Tyler Kenneth) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    I addressed three questions in Labor Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental variation to determine causality. In the first chapter, I ask whether playing longer in the NFL increases mortality in retirement. ...
  • Exposure to risk and its impact on human capital : essays on combat exposure, military labor, and conflict duration 
    Yankovich, Michael F (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This dissertation examines the impact of contemporaneous American participation in war on military labor and conflict duration. Chapter one uses variation in occupation-specific retention bonuses and mortality risks observed ...
  • Essays on information and incentives 
    Xandri Antuña, Juan P. (Juan Pablo) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This thesis studies problems of belief and information formation of agents, and its effect on incentive provision in problems of experimental and mechanism design. Chapter 1 is based on joint work with Arun Chandrasekhar ...
  • Essays on trade, CO₂, and the environment 
    Shapiro, Joseph S (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    The first chapter of this thesis uses a general equilibrium model of trade and the environment to investigate two questions. First, how do the gains from trade compare against the environmental costs of trade? Trade can ...
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