This dissertation consists of three papers related to the economics of online platforms: one on e-commerce shipping, one on sports event attendance, and another on online concert ticket platforms.In the first chapter, we ...

Increasing pressure to manage the cost of healthcare has resulted in shifting care towards ambulatory settings and is driving a focus on cost transparency. There are few nurse staffing to workload models developed for ...

The central question when evaluating the effects of government spending on GDP, is whether the fiscal multiplier is greater or lower than 1, or equivalently, the direction and strength of fiscal spillovers. I study the ...

The two chapters of this dissertation explore two central topics of the current policy debate.

In this dissertation I explore the incentives and ability of the agent with informational superiority to polarize her rational audience. I explore this question in the context of strategic communication games. The first ...

In this dissertation, I explore how the gender wage gap across the distribution and different indicators of intergenerational mobility in education are impacted by sample selection. In the first chapter, I analyze the ...

In the traditional discrete choice model, we assume that consumers know the product attributes without uncertainty. Learning models extend the discrete choice model by assuming that consumers have incomplete information ...

This project explores employee pay and what it means to get it right through a human values perspective. The project is based on the hypothesis that satisfaction with pay is linked to employee retention, yet satisfaction ...

The healthcare systems of OECD nations are very diverse and complex. With the COVID-19 pandemic testing these systems to a breaking point not seen in generations, some nations performed better than others in handling the ...