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