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The determinants of political behavior : evidence from three randomized field experiments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
My dissertation explores the political behavior of different groups, including immigrants, the youth, and uneducated and marginalized citizens - focusing on their registration and turnout decisions, as well as vote choices, ...
Regulation of public health insurance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The first chapter takes advantage of the evolution of the regulatory and pricing environment in the first years of a large federal prescription drug insurance program for seniors - Medicare Part D - to explore interactions ...
Optimal taxation with endogenous wages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis consists of three chapters on optimal tax theory with endogenous wages. Chapter 1 studies optimal linear and nonlinear income taxation when firms do not know workers' abilities, and competitively screen them ...
Essays in health economics and productivity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The first chapter studies how incentives drive adoption by looking at a technology that generates revenue for hospitals: the practice of submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a 2008 reform, hospitals were ...
The enforcement of collusion in oligopoly
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
Essays on political economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The first chapter explores the disciplining effect of elections on national leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa. I first show that the completion of development projects funded by the World Bank and implemented by governments ...
Essays in the industrial organization of the pharmaceutical industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This dissertation comprises of three chapters, each exploring different issues in the industrial organization of the pharmaceutical industry. In the first chapter, I study the effects of television advertising of antidepressants ...
Essays on finance and labor markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis consists of three chapters in corporate finance and labor economics. The first two chapters study the interaction of the financial sector and labor market, and the last chapter focuses on corporate R&D investment. ...
Essays on labor market dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis consists of three chapters on labor market dynamics. In the first chapter, I show empirically that the unequal incidence of recessions is a core channel through which aggregate shocks are amplified. I show that ...
Essays in applied theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In "Incomplete Contracting with Endogenous Competition," I consider a variant of the incomplete contracting with renegotiation model introduced by Hart and Moore (1988). I study a trading relation between a buyer and seller, ...