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Essays on the effects of immigration on education and crime
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This thesis estimates the effects of immigration on education and crime. In Chapter I, I use a reform in immigration policy as a natural experiment to estimate the effects of immigration on native-born student outcomes in ... -
Essays on the Effects of Public Policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)This dissertation presents three papers on the effects of public policy on market outcomes. In the first paper, I analyze the effects of trade liberalization on firm labor market power in Brazil. I find that while Brazil’s ... -
Essays on the emiprical properties of stock and mutual fund returns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)Survivorship bias influences statistical inference in Finance. Through a series of Monte Carlo simulations in the style of Brown, Goetzmann, Ibbotson, and Ross {1992), we study the sampling distribution of the mean return, ... -
Essays on the empirical analysis of accident law
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Essays on the empowerment and employment of women in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This thesis consists of three papers on the empowerment and employment of women in India. India's female labor force participation rate is among the lowest in the world. Research suggests many women in India want to work, ... -
Essays on the evaluation of entrepreneurship programs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This dissertation consists of three essays studying the impact of a relatively recent type of entrepreneurship program (startup accelerators) on the performance of firms, regions, and the selection of early-stage projects ... -
Essays on the evaluation of novel ideas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)In this dissertation, I examine the evaluation of novel ideas in two essays. In the first, I, along with Hong Luo and Jeffrey Macher, study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry ... -
Essays on the financial behavior of corporations and households
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)This thesis consists of three essays. The first essay investigates what role employee stock options and CEO compensation have in explaining the surge in corporate share repurchases in the mid 1990s. Corporations may opt ... -
Essays on the financial system of developing economies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The thesis consists of three chapters, which explore the financial system of rural Thai Villages through the lens of the Townsend Thai Monthly Survey. The first two chapters examine savings behaviour, while the last chapter ... -
Essays on the functioning of housing and labor markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The first chapter consists of my job-market paper. The foreclosure rate of sub-prime mortgages increased markedly across 2003-2007 borrower cohorts-sub-prime mortgages originated in 2006- 2007 were roughly three times more ... -
Essays on the impact of digital information on innovation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The first essay describes how intellectual property (copyright law) might affect the diffusion of newly, digitized information. To evaluate this question, I focus on the digitization of a magazine as a part of the Google ... -
Essays on the impact of supply-side regulation in US health care markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)In this thesis, I take up the question of how government regulations impact the supply side of the US health care market. In Chapter 1, I exploit the Medicare rural floor, a discontinuity in geographic adjustments to ... -
Essays on the industrial organization of the airline industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis analyzes several aspects of the Industrial Organization of the airline industry in three separate chapters. Chapter 1 investigates the effect of air traffic delays on airline prices. The degree to which prices ... -
Essays on the interactions of local economies and their macroeconomic implications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This thesis consists of three chapters about the spatial aspects of macroeconomics. Chapter 1 argues that local labor demand shocks are amplified by migration. I document that within-U.S. migration causes a large reduction ... -
Essays on the law and economics of public institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)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 ... -
Essays on the Locus of Learning and Innovation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)This dissertation comprises three essays that explore the locus of learning and innovation in organizations and their environments, and the resulting impact on firm strategy. The first essay examines how firms can learn ... -
Essays on the macroeconomic effects of monetary reforms, price controls and financial repression
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Essays on the macroeconomic implications of financial frictions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis consists of three chapters on the macroeconomic implications of financial frictions. The first chapter investigates the implications of student loan debt on labor market outcomes. I begin by analytically ... -
Essays on the macroeconomics of economic development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Chapter 1 contains a theory of misallocation. In contrast to a recent literature where misallocation stems from imperfect input markets, I study an economy with non-competitive output markets. This change of focus has two ... -
Essays on the macroeconomics of the labor markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)In Chapter 1, I study the efficiency properties of competitive search equilibria in economies with informational asymmetries. Employers and workers are both risk-neutral and ex-ante homogeneous. I characterize an equilibrium ...
