Browsing by Author "Hicks, Daniel"

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    • A Currency Union Odyssey: Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone 

      Strong, Christine (2019-08-01)
      This thesis focuses on one of the most important currency unions in the world known as the CFA zone. The goal of this thesis is to draw a comparison of African countries with their own national currencies to African countries ...

    • Economic reforms in developing economies 

      Chaure, Trupti (2021-08-05)
      This dissertation comprises three essays on policy program impact evaluation. The first essay (chapter 1) looks at the Employment Guarantee Act policy and its effect on the child sex ratio. The second essay (Chapter 2) ...

    • Essays in development economics 

      Das, Saini (2021-08-05)
      My dissertation chapters study the impact of environmental factors on outcomes of human functioning. The first chapter studies the impact of heat stress during a primary school leaving exam in Indonesia on outcomes in ...

    • ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT TREATIES, INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTES AND DOUBLE TAX TREATIES 

      Yayi, L. Constant (2017-12-15)
      Chapter 1 explores the effects of international investment treaties on institutional quality. Capital importing countries use bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as a means to attract foreign investors who see these ...

    • Non-market adaptations to climate change and recreational policy evaluation: three essays in environmental and applied microeconomics 

      O'Connor, Sean (2021-05-14)
      The first chapter examines the role of non-market behavioral adaptation to climate change in the United States for the case of outdoor leisure with a novel estimation procedure that accounts for both short-run weather and ...

    • THE ORTHODOX ETHIC? THE ROLE OF CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS IN MACEDONIA 

      Mrchkovska, Nela (2019-08)
      Max Weber’s analysis in his prominent book The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has prompted a generation of research that observes the role and impact of religion in world affairs. The core of Weber’s ...

    • Public policies and social outcomes in Brazil 

      Alfena Zago, Rafael (2022-05-13)
      This work brings three studies that evaluate public policies in Brazil. First, I study a recent infrastructure improvement program in São Paulo City, to estimate the causal impact of improved public lighting on nighttime ...

    • Taiwan First: The Role of National Identity in Protectionist Trade Policies 

      Franklin, Alexandra (2018-05-11)
      Taiwan’s modern history of rapid economic growth has given the country the reputation as the “Taiwan Miracle”. The country’s emphasis on economic growth has become a core tenet of the nation’s policies and attitudes, both ...

    • THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT & APPLIED MICRO 

      Duan, Huiqiong (2018-07-26)
      Chapter 1: China’s National Poor Counties (NPCs) program represents one of the largest anti-poverty efforts ever undertaken in a developing country. In spite of this, no causal analysis has been undertaken to examine whether ...

    • Three Essays in Development and Applied Micro 

      Absher, Samuel (2018-05)
      Chapter 1: We explore what effect horizontal communication technologies, like mobile phones and the internet, had on levels of violence in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. We exploit a quasi-experiment within the civil war, where ...

    • THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH 

      Yuan, Weici (2016-05-13)
      My research explores important issues associated with development and growth. Chapter 1 aims to obtain an accurate estimate of China's intergenerational income mobility and to present evidence on its distributional pattern. ...

    • Three Essays in Political Economy of Development 

      Soumahoro, Souleymane (2015-05)
      Chapter 1 exploits the emergence of two de facto states in Côte d’Ivoire during the 2002-2010 political crisis to examine the effects of export tax reduction on the living standards of cocoa farming households. Combining ...

    • THREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 

      Duan, Yi (2017-10)
      My dissertation chapters focus on economic development and economic growth. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of bilateral FDI flows on host countries’ productivity growth as well as on the productivity gap between host ...

    • Three Essays on Economic Development in Developing Countries 

      Xu, Zhengang (2021-08-05)
      Chapter 1: This paper studies the economic impact of president Xi Jinping’s Eight Regulations of Austerity and coordinated anti-corruption campaign. Specifically, I examine the effects of this campaign on the pattern of ...

    • Three essays on economics of language 

      Xu, Chen (2020-07-30)
      My dissertation chapters examine the Economic returns to the proficiency on language use in different contexts. The first chapter challenges some of the standard assumptions imposed in the linear ordinary least model and ...

    • THREE ESSAYS ON EXCHANGE RATE POLICY AND ECONOMIC CRISIS RECOVERY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL METHODS APPROACH 

      Hallren, Ross (2015-05-08)
      My research explores the effect of monetary systems on how quickly developing countries recover from economic crises. Existing research typically assumes that countries that do not take on a given policy are an appropriate ...

    • Three Papers in Applied Macro Policy 

      Ufier, Alexander (2015-05-08)
      The purpose of any applied macroeconomics study should be to provide actionable information to world governments on policy questions. This dissertation addresses two policies: the first chapter addressed the effects of a ...