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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis exploits a major overhaul in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to answer various questions about publicly-provided health care. The VA restructuring involved the adoption of a capitated ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis consists of three essays that examine household savings and portfolio choice behavior. Chapter One analyses the effects of employer matching contributions and tax incentives on participation and contribution ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The first chapter attempts to shed light on the role of housing price dynamics in mobility decisions, asking whether households respond to prices in a forward- or backward-looking manner, and the extent to which high ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation consists of three essays on the effects of low-skilled immigration on US prices and labor markets. The first essay uses confidential data from the Consumer Price Index to estimate the causal effect of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation consists of four essays on human capital, institutions, and incentives. In the first essay, I investigate the effects of voucher-school competition on educational outcomes in Chile. I present a theoretical ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis is concerned with the economic consequences for individuals of two important U.S. labor market institutions: unionization and the military draft. The first chapter develops an econometric procedure for estimating ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation analyzes the impact of various financial incentives on firm behavior. The first two chapters examine product-market and input-market effects of a firm's capital structure and the incentives they create. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis examines the impact of political and legal institutions on economic development. The thesis consists of three studies analyzing specific historical and current institutions. The first chapter examines the impact ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This dissertation considers both private and public-sector influences on inpatient care, focusing first on the impact of strategic hospital behavior on entry into new procedure markets, and second on the effect of changes ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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In and out of the labor market : disability, old age, gender and the functioning of the labor market (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This paper identifies the effect of agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates in the United States. Rental agreements are primarily between farmers and non-farmer landlords, but no evidence exists concerning the ...
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