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This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I study downward wage rigidity. Downward wage rigidity is central to many explanations of unemployment fluctuations. In benchmark ...

This thesis consists of three chapters on the economics of health and social insurance. In the first chapter, I examine the distribution of income risk that adults face from severe illness and the social insurance provided ...

This thesis consists of three essays on the design of environmental markets in the face of fast-approaching climate change. The first essay studies a water market used by irrigated farms inhabiting a connected river network ...

This thesis studies the causal impacts of social insurance program design on household behavior and program-relevant outcomes. Each paper considers a major design feature of a large social insurance program - work requirements, ...