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Essays in unemployment insurance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis consists of three essays that examine household responses to state unemployment insurance (UI) generosity across spells of unemployment, with a particular emphasis on the role of liquidity constraints. Enacted ...
Smoothing consumption across households and time : essays in development economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis studies two strategies that households may use to keep their consumption smooth in the face of fluctuations in income and expenses: credit (borrowing and savings) and insurance (state contingent transfers between ...
Essays in international economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967)
Essays on health economics and technology adoption
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis studies the economics of technology adoption in the healthcare industry. The first chapter analyzes the impact of health information technology (HIT) on the quality and intensity of care delivered to Medicare ...
Long-term care and the elderly
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Long-term care expenditures represent one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly. Medicaid provides incomplete insurance against these costs: unlimited nursing home benefits with a deductible equal to ...
Essays in labor economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
My dissertation is a collection of three essays that consider various aspects of income inequality and the demand for skill. The first chapter uses the advent of the US Interstate Highway System to examine the effect of ...
Human capital, institutions, and incentives : micro and macro perspectives
(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 ...
Three essays on unemployment, self-selection and wage differentials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis is a collection of three essays on labor economics from a macroeconomic prospective. Chapter 1 discusses imperfect information, self-selection and the market for higher education. It explores how the steady ...
Essays on economic design and coalition formation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis consists of three essays on economic design and coalition formation. The first chapter studies the stability of many-to-one matching, such as matching between students and colleges or interns and hospitals. ...
Local networks : theory and applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Chapter 2 analyzes a simple evolutionary model of residential segregation based on decentralized racism which extends Schelling's (1972) well-known tipping model by allowing for local interaction among residents. The richer ...