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Valuing Private Reproductive Healthcare Policies
(2023-06-30)
Several employers have introduced healthcare policies providing reimbursement for abortion-related travel in abortion-restricted states. This paper evaluates an employee’s willingness to pay (WTP) to work for a job with ...
The Effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on Moral and Civic Values
(2023-06-30)
I study the effect of the Russo-Ukrainian War on moral, social, and civic values by comparing survey data which I collected in Ukraine in November 2022 with data on the same survey questions gathered in previous waves of ...
Rising Rents: Forecasting Housing Inflation at the Metropolitan Level
(2023-06-30)
I utilize housing data available at the metropolitan level to build a panel regression model forecasting shelter inflation as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics's Consumer Price Index. I achieve an in-sample R2 of ...
Does Going Green Pay Dividends? The Impact of Firm Climate-Related Disclosures on Institutional Investor Behavior
(2023-06-30)
In the climate finance space, firms and institutional investors are two major groups of players in the drive towards a potentially more sustainable future. As a result, firms are increasingly being pressured by investors ...
From Urban Form to Friending Bias: Testing Jane Jacobs’ Hypotheses
(2023-06-30)
Recent work has shown that social integration can influence a variety of outcomes ranging from educational attainment to overall health to income inequality. This paper examines the extent to which urban design can foster ...
Three Essays on Talent Selection and Allocation in the Economy
(2024-04-04)
This dissertation explores three different aspects of how talent gets allocated into jobs within the economy. First, with my coauthor David Deming, I explore the return to majoring in applied STEM fields by age, showing ...
Essays in Econometrics
(2024-03-26)
This dissertation consists of three essays in econometrics. A common throughline is decision theory, defined here broadly as the formal considerations justifying, informing, or undermining choices of statistical procedures.
The ...
Essays on Open Science and Open Software in Firm Innovation
(2024-05-31)
Why do firms publish science and release open-source software for free? The classical view in economics argues that firms will underproduce innovation relative to the social optimum because they cannot capture the social ...
Essays on Energy and Environmental Economics
(2024-04-11)
The first chapter examines the dynamics of learning-by-doing among installation firms in the residential solar industry. Consumer subsidies are a common policy tool for supporting the adoption of clean energy technologies. ...
Essays in Industrial Organization and Development Economics
(2024-04-10)
This thesis contains three essays that study the effects of government interventions in markets in developing countries. The first essay quantifies the dynamic effects of price control regulations in the Indian cement ...