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THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT & APPLIED MICRO
(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 ...
CONCURSO FEVER: THE EPIDEMIC SWEEPING BRAZIL
(2016)
This dissertation investigates public sector work and the desire for concursos in northeastern Brazil. It considers the meaning of civil service to “new” middle class Brazilians and seeks to understand how standardized ...
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TRIBAL GAMING ON NON-NATIVE COMMUNITIES IN OKLAHOMA USING L.O.S.T. DATA
(2017-05-12)
Econometric analysis of tribal gaming on non-Native communities in Oklahoma. The study utilizes Local Option Sales Tax data as the outcome variable in a difference-in-difference model to analyze gaming impacts. Ten case ...
Three Essays in Economics of Innovation and Industrial Organization
(2018-08-02)
My dissertation studies economics of innovation and industrial organization. In the first chapter, I analyze the effect of geographic proximity on knowledge flows by estimating the impact of travel time on patent citation ...
Three Essays in Political Economy of Development
(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 ...
Against the Proposed New UNP Project Plan
(2019-09-06)
There are basically three things wrong with the UNP TIF:
1) It has failed to deliver on the high-end, regional-draw retail which it promised.
2) It diverts tax income from higher priority uses.
3) Expenditures in the ...
The International Corporate Tax Competition: How Do Countries Interact With Each Other
(2014)
Corporate tax rates have been significantly decreased, especially in the OECD countries in the past thirty years. In 1980, the average federal level corporate top statutory tax rate in the OECD countries was 42.35%, and ...
Three Essays on Contract Renegotiation
(2014-05-09)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays investigating renegotiation of procurement auctions in the road construction industry. The empirical analysis uses contracts procured by the Vermont Agency of Transportation ...
THREE ESSAYS ON EXCHANGE RATE POLICY AND ECONOMIC CRISIS RECOVERY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL METHODS APPROACH
(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 ...