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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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Essays on the design and targeting of financial products : evidence from field experiments in India (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)study the design of microfinance contracts and how to target financial products using community information. In Chapter 1, I report on a field experiment in India that assesses (1) whether community members have information ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)The first chapter investigates how hospital mergers affect technology adoption and utilization. I analyze the mergers of five for-profit hospital chains in a difference-in-difference framework, comparing markets in which ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This thesis explores the determinants of international migration of low-skilled workers, in particular, from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries. The first chapter explores how potential migrants trade the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The first essay analyzes the impact of the 1930's American Dust Bowl and investigates how much the short-term costs from erosion were mitigated by long-term adjustments. Exploiting new data collected to identify low, medium, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis is a collection of three essays analyzing the economic effects of human capital investments. The first chapter evaluates the effects of a major educational reform in India called Operation Blackboard. The teacher ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The research presented in this thesis covers two topics: the economics of crime and econometric methodology. The first chapter addresses the question of whether higher wages reduce teenage crime rates. I exploit exogenous ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This dissertation consists of three essays in the economics of education. The first chapter uses Boston charter school admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of charter enrollment on special needs students' classification ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This dissertation combines three essays on the economics of education. The essays share a common focus on comparing experimental and non-experimental econometric methods. I present findings from randomized evaluations of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation is a collection of three essays exploring the impact of incentives on participation in public education and health programs. The first two essays analyze the demand for Special Education (a program for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This thesis studies gender differences in educational and occupational outcomes. Chapter 1 examines whether the long work hours required by high-paying professions are a barrier to entry for women, who may face a tradeoff ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis brings together three essays on issues in the economics of health insurance. The first study considers the effects of average per-patient caps on Medicare reimbursement for home health care, which took effect ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I estimate the dynamic or inter-temporal knowledge spillovers resulting from corporate R&D in a setting with cumulative innovation, using a panel of US firms ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis consists of three chapters on the economics of labor markets. Each chapter explores an aspect of the distributional consequences of labor market shocks due to changes in trade, regulations, or technology. The ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation presents work empirically investigating various aspects of the criminal justice system. Chapter one, coauthored with Chris Rohlfs, examines the judicial bail-setting process and the defendant decision to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis studies the economics of local labor markets. There are three chapters in the thesis, and each chapter studies how economic outcomes are affected by local labor market conditions. The first chapter studies the ...
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