About The Department

Recent PhD Theses

2017

Essays on the Economics of Labor Markets
Bartik, Alexander

Essays on Auctions, Contests, and Games
Bhattacharya, Vivek

Essays in International Trade and Labor Market
Cantoni, Enrico

Macroeconomics and Financial Fragility
Caramp, Nicolas

Essays on the Economics of Innovation
Colino Llamas, David

Market Imperfections and Market-based Policy Instruments
Eun, Dong Jae

Estimating Institutional Quality with Instruments: Three Essays and Applications in Education and Healthcare
Hull, Peter

Essays on the Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Frictions
Ji, Yan

Essays in Macro and Development Economics
Liu, Siyuan

Evidence Aggregation in Development Economics via Bayesian Hierarchial Models
Meager, Rachael

Essays in Pharmaceutical Economics
Murphy, Stephen

Essays in Political Economy
Ornaghi, Arianna

Three Essays on Consumer Finance
Padi, Manisha

Essays on the Impact of Supply-Side Regulation in US Health Care Markets
Perry, Bryan

Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization, Automation, and Institutional Reform
Price, Brendan

Essays in Informal Finance and Market Design under Weak Institutions
Roth, Benjamin

Essays in the Economics of Higher Education
Russell, Lauren

Essays on the Economics of Education
Setren, Elizabeth

Essays in Applied Macroeconomics
Shi, Yu

Three Essays on International Trade
Wang, Su

Essays on the Digital Economy
Wu, Mengxi

Essays on Financial, Transportation, and Savings Investment Technologies
Yokossi, Windeourouma Tite

Essays on Industrial Organization
Zhang, Hongkai

2016

Essays in International Trade and Labor Market
Adao, Rodrigo Rodrigues

Essays on Firms in Developing Countries
Bai, Jie

Essays on Information Acquisition
Denti, Tommaso

Essays on Political Economy
Garcia-Arenas, Javier

The Economic and Health Consequences of Lead Paint Abatement Regulations
Gazze, Ludovica

Essays in Development Economics
Harari, Mariaflavia

Essays on the Economics of Education
Hudson, Sally

Essays on Strategic Behavior in Government-Designed Markets
Illanes, Gaston

Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy
McDowell, Richard

Essays on Frictions in Financial Institutions
Muley, Ameya

Approaches to Education Market Design
Narita, Yusuke

Essays in Political Economics and Information Acquisition
Reggiani, Giovanni

Technology and Labor Markets
Restrepo, Pascual

Essays on the Design and Targeting of Financial Products: Evidence from Field Experiments in India
Rigol, Natalia

Essays on Savings, Investment, and Monetary Policy
Rognlie, Matthew

Essays in Development Economics
Shenoy, Ashish

Essays on the Determinants of International Migration
Shrestha, Maheshwor

Essays on Macroeconomics and Risk Premium
Silva, Dejanir

Essays on the Economics of Gender
Wasserman, Melanie

Essays on Health Economics
Wu, Yufei

2015

Essays in Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Auclert, Adrien

Essays on the Effects of Disabiity Insurance
Deshpande, Manasi

Essays on the Determinants of Healthcare Utilization
Easterbrook, Kathleen

Essays on Veterans' Disability Compensation and the Effects of Military Service
Greenberg, Kyle

Essays on Development Economics
Hernandez-Martinez, Sara

Essays in Health and Development Economics
Hussam, Reshmaan

Essays in Industrial Organization
Jang, Youngjun

Cognitive Foundations of Strategic Behavior: From Games to Revolutions
Jimenez-Gomez, David

Essays on Financial Institutions
Kim, Kyungmin

High-Dimensional Econometrics and Model Selection
Luo, Ye

Essays in Price Discrimination and Regulation
Moshary, Sarah

Essays on Banking and Local Credit Markets
Nguyen, Hoai-Luu Quang

Essays on Macroeconomics and Contract Theory
Passadore Figueroa, Juan Francisco

Housing and Credit Markets
Struyven, Daan

Essays in Bargaining and Auction Theory
Tsoy, Anton

2014

Essays in Weak Identification
Andrews, Isaiah

Regulation of Public Health Insurance
Breiter Polyakova, Maria

Essays in Online Labor Markets
Chandler, Dana

Essays on Equality of Opportunity and the Access to Higher Education
Diez-Amigo, Sandro

Essays in Economic Development and Education
Feigenberg, Benjamin

The Political Economy of Government Interventions in Financial Crises
Foarta, Octavia

Hiring, Recessions, and Careers: Three Essays in Personnel Economics
Forsythe, Elizabeth

Essays on International Macreconomics
Gomez Gonzalez, Patricia

Essays in Credit Markets and Development Economics
Jain, Anil

Essays in Dynamic Games and Mechanism Design
Lang, Ruitian

Three Essays on Econometrics
Lee, Joonhwan

Essays on Labor Market Inequality
Miller, Conrad

Essays on the Functioning of Housing and Labor Markets
Palmer, Christopher

The Determinants of Political Behavior: Evidence from Three Randomized Field Experiments
Pons, Vincent

Extrapolation and Bandwidth Choice in the Regression Discontinuity Design
Rokkanen, Miikka

Essays in Health Economics and Productivity
Sacarny, Adam

Essays in Labor Economics and Political Economy
Scognamiglio, Annalisa

Essays in the Industrial Organization of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Shapiro, Bradley

Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Wages
Stantcheva, Stefana

Essays in Economics
Zabai, Anna

2013

Essays in Relational Contracts and Repeated Games
Barron, Daniel

Essays on Health Care Delivery and Financing
Chan, David

New Methods for Econometric Inference
Chetverikov, Denis

Essays on Amplification Mechanism in Financial Markets
DiMaggio, Marco

Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
DiTella, Sebastian

Three Essays on the Role of Networks in Political Economy
Larreguy Arbesu, Horacio

Essays in Industrial Organization Economics
Larsen, Brad

Three Essays in Development Economics
Leight, Jessica

Essays on the Economics of Public Sector Retirement Programs
Leiserson, Gregory

Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
Mohsenzadeh Kermani, Amir Reza

Essays on Health Economics and Risk Preferences
Pascu, Iuliana

Essays in Oil, Conflict, and the Development of Resource-Rich Countries
Peck, Jennifer

Essays in Public Economics and Political Economy
Pinkovskiy, Maksim

Understanding the Determinants of Conflict in East Africa
Ralston, Laura

Essays on International Macroeconomics
Rees, Daniel

Essays on Trade, CO₂, and the Environment
Shapiro, Joseph

Essays on the Heterogeneity of Firm Performance
Venables, Sarah

Essays on the Economics of Education
Walters, Christopher

Essays on Institutions in Developing Countries
Wang, Xiao Yu

Essays in Labor Economics
Williams, Tyler

Essays in Information and Incentives
Xandri Antuna, Juan

Exposure to Risk and Its Impact on Human Capital: Essays on Combat Exposure, Military Labor, and Conflict Duration
Yankovich, Michael

2012

Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Aron-Dine, Aviva

Wealth Inequality and the Losses from Financial Frictions
Blaum, Joaquin

Peer Effects and Loan Repayment: Evidence from the Krishna Default Crisis
Breza, Emily

A Quantitative Approach to Incentives: Application to Voting Rules
Carroll, Gabriel

Econometrics of sampled networks
Chandrasekhar, Arun

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War
Dell, Melissa

Essays on Finance, Learning, and Macroeconomics
Doyle, Joseph

General Revenue Sharing and Public Sector Unions
Feiveson, Laura

Reading the Fine Print: Credit Demand and Information Disclosure in Brazil
Ferman, Bruno

Why Unions Still Matter: The Effects of Unionization on the Distribution of Employee Earnings
Frandsen, Brigham

Private Information and Insurance Rejections
Hendren, Nathaniel

Liquidity Scarcity, Project Selection and Volatility
Iachan, Felipe

Sophisticated Risk Management and Aggregate Volatility
Iovino, Luigi

Optimal Information Revelation
Kolotilin, Anton

Dynamic Moral Hazard with Persistent States
Kwon, Suehyun

Bias, Information, and Efficiency in Expert Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
Li, Danielle

The Evolution of Physician Practice Styles: Evidence from Cardiologist Migration
Molitor, David

Labor Market and Regional Reallocation Effects of Housing Busts
Nenov, Plamen

Heterogeneous Mark-Ups and Endogenous Misallocation
Peters, Michael

Productivity, Credibility, and Misallocation in Industry Equilibrium
Powell, Michael

The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
Querubin, Pablo

Empirical Essays on Firm Behavior in India
Ryan, Nicholas

The Long-term Impact of Business Cycles on Innovation: Evidence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shu, Pian

Physician Ownership and Incentives: Evidence from Cardiac Care
Swanson, Ashley

A Bayesian Approach to Option Mispricing
Vargas, Alberto

A Principal-Expert Model and The Value of Menus
Zermeno, Luis

2011

Approaches to Mechanism Design with Boundedly Rational Agents
Carroll, Gabriel

Essays in Economics
Sawnson, Ashley

Essays on the Principal-Expert Problem
Valles, Luis G. Zermeno

2010

Liquidity, Facilities, and Signaling
Arregui, Nicolas

Essays on International Economics
Basco Mascaro, Sergi

Essays in Unemployment Insurance
Brown, David

Essays in Dynamic General Equilibrium
Cao, Dan

Essays on Genetic Variation and Economic Behavior
Cesarini, David

Identifying and Estimating the Distributional Effects of Unionization and the Long-term Consequences of Military Service
Frandsen, Brigham

Smoothing Consumption across Households and Time: Essays in Development Economics
Kinnan, Cynthia

Household Savings and Portfolio Choice
Klein, Sean

Essays on Liquidity and Information
Kurlat, Pablo

Essays on Informational Frictions in Macroeconomics and Finance
La'O, Jennifer

Essays on Economies with Heterogeneous Labor
Lehr, Brandon

Essays in Empirical Law and Economics
Lem (Chou), Jacklin

Measuring the Effects of Online Advertising on Human Behavior Using Natural and Field Experiments
Lewis, Randall

Essays on Imperfect Information, Macroeconomic Fluctuations, and Nominal Rigidities
L'Huillier Bowles, Jean

Essays on Political Accountability in Non-Democratic Regimes
Martinez, Monica

Essays on Political Economy
Migueis, Marco

Essays on the Economics of Local Labor Markets
Notowidigdo, Matthew

Political Elites and Development
Querubin, Pablo

Essays on Taxation and Firm Behavior
Rao, Nirupama

Essays on Insurance and Taxation
Scheuer, Florian

Essays on Uncertainty in Economics
Simsek, Alp

Essays on Entrepreneurship
Taveras, Carmen

2009

Essays on Growth and Innovation Policies
Akcigit, Ufuk

Essays on Sovereign Debt and International Capital Flows
Basu, Suman

Essays on Household Decision Making in Developing Countries
Berry, James

Financing Retirement Consumption and Bequests
Bowen Bishop, Tonja

Social Networks in Industrial Organization
Campbell, Arthur

Essays in Decision Making
Chang, Tom

Essays on Dynamic Sales Mechanisms
Chen, Chia-Hui

Essays on the Structural Estimation and Analysis of Corporate and Industrial Markets
Cohen, Moshe

Essays on Incentives for Innovation
Ederer, Florian

Essays on Taxation and Investmemt
Edgerton, Jesse

Essays on Malpractice Law and Physician Behavior
Frakes, Michael

Essays on Contract Theory and Behavioral Economics
Gottlieb, Daniel

Essays on Health Care Consumption and Household Finance
Gross, Tal

Essays on the Development of the American Economy
Hornbeck, Richard

Empirical Study of New Keynesian Model Using Cointegrated VAR: What New Zealand Data Tell Us
Kim, Hae-Min

Essays on Contract Theory and Organizational Economics
Ke, Rongzhu

Essays on Set Estimation and Inference with Moment Inequalities
Menzel, Konrad

Three Essays on the Impacts of Income Taxes
Powell, David

Empirical Essays on Finance and Development
Shapiro, Jeremy

Essays on Optimal Insurance Design
Spinnewijn, Johannes

Essays on Political Boundaries
Weese, Eric

Essays in the Economics of Education and Program Evaluation
Zhang, Hongliang

2008

Essays on Mechanism Design
Balestrieri, Filippo

Federal Mandates and Mortgage Supply: Regression Discontinuity Analyses of the Community Reinvestment and GSE Acts
Bhutta, Filippo

Essays in the Economics of Education and Health
Cohen, Jessica

Essays on International Capital Flows
Didier, Tatiana

Essays on Development Finance
Fischer, Gregory

Essays in Empirical Microeconomics
Guiteras, Raymond

Essays in Financial Econometrics
Kocatulum, Emre

Essays on Medical Care Using Semiparametric and Structural Econometrics
Kowalski, Amanda

Essays on Matching, Marriage and Human Capital Accumulation
Lafortune, Jeanne

Essays in Industrial Economics
Leao, Joao

Three Essays on the Impact of Openness, FDE and Business Law on Economic Growth
Lee, HaYan

Education and Health Care in Developing Countries
Nguyen, Trang

Essays in Incomplete Markets
Panousi, Vasia

Policies of Different Governments: Persistence and Interactions
Ricka, Frantisek

Essays on European Labor Markets
Sa, Filipa

Migration and Development in Mexican Communities
Schnabl, Peter

Tax Policy, Housing Markets, and Elderly Homeowners
Shan, Hui

Essays in Macroeconomics and Experiments
Shurchkov, Olga

Essays on the Youth and Low-Skilled Labor Market
Smith, Christopher

2007

Essays on Coordination, Cooperation, and Learning
Chassang, Sylvain

On Dictatorships
Debs, Alexandre

Essays in Applied Economics
Grant, Alan

Essays in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Ghosh, Indradeep

Essays in Econometrics and Random Matrix Theory
Harding, Matthew

Of Energy and the Economy--Theory and Evidence for their Functional Relationship
Hua-Cheng Chang, Vincent

Learning in the Labor Market
Li, Jin

Essays on the Teacher Labor Market
McKie, Allison

Essays in Organizational Economics
Rantakari, Heikki

Essays on Optimal Taxation
Reis, Catarina

Essays on Development Economics
Ruthbah, Ummul

Essays on Financial Market Imperfections
Wu, Ding

Essays on Political Institutions and Macroeconomics
Yared, Pierre