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Housing Wealth, Elderly Labor Outcomes and Financing Retirement
(2015-08)
The first chapter of my dissertation uses the restricted access version of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) data to examine elderly workers responses to changes in housing wealth, property taxes and financial wealth. ...
EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES, PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AND FISCAL POLICY INTERACTION IN U.S. STATES
(2015-08-14)
Economic development incentives (EDI) have been widely used by state and local governments over the past three decades. They are viewed as an important tool to attract business investment, create jobs and ultimately stimulate ...
Three Papers in Applied Macro Policy
(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 ...
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 ...
Three Essays in Local Public Finance
(2015-05)
This dissertation targets three questions relating to local public finance. Given the importance of local public finance on the average person's everyday life (consider the state of local roads and schools), understanding ...
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 ...