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Title: Essays on Applied Microeconomics and Policy

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: These essays are, ultimately, about policy challenges. In Chapter 1, I explore one way in which the hostile, divisive political environment undermines one fundamen- tal function of government performance: the enforcement of basic transparency laws over politically charged entities. In Chapter 2, I show that common labor market poli- cies affect the pace of technological change, a key driver of wage inequality to which the literature has struggled to find responses. In Chapter 3, my coauthors and I evaluate one program that was effective in improving health for poor populations in the minimally- governed peripheries of there country, where much of the world’s most extreme poverty is concentrated and where traditional development policy is nearly impossible to imple- ment.

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Authors: Downey, Patrick

Institution: UC San Diego

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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Economics

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Pages: 251

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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Countries: United States