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Essays on Policy Evaluation
This dissertation evaluates the effects of tax policies on fertility and on women’s return to work and effects of land policies on women’s empowerment. In the first chapter, I study the impacts of the introduction of the child tax credit in 1998 and the expansions of the child tax credit and the child and dependent care credit ...
Essays on Labor Supply
This dissertation consists of essays studying labor supply empirically through the use of an experimental platform set up on Amazon Mechanical Turk online labor market. The essays contribute to measuring labor supply elasticties; response of effort to pay; and the willingness to pay for job attributes. What these topics have ...
Beliefs, Choice Structure, and Human Capital Investment
The decision to pursue a college education has extensive economic implications, and economists have studied this decision for decades. However, the current economic approach to educational choice oversimplifies the decision, and cannot adequately explain student behavior. I relax several standard assumptions of educational ...
The Impact of Identity and Self-perception on Labor Market Outcomes
This dissertation explores the impact of perception on labor market outcomes in three contexts. The first chapter uses NELS:88 data to examine the differential impact of subject specific self-perception on education choices and labor market outcomes. I find that test scores, grades and perception are all positive and statistically ...
The Impact of Fisheries Reform: Property Rights Markets and the Drivers of Outmigration in Rural Alaska
This dissertation explores the economic effects of management shifts introduced in commercial Alaskan fisheries between 1975 and 2015. The first two chapters use household survey data from rural Alaska to examine the impact of limiting access to Alaskan salmon through transferable fishing permits. The first chapter exploits ...
Essays on Labor and Development Economics
This dissertation consists of three separate essays on topics in labor and development economics. The first chapter examines the impact that the increased demand for foreign players in US Major League Baseball(MLB) has had on male youth’s educational attainment in the Dominican Republic. I use a triple difference strategy ...