How do poor rural households in Bangladesh deal with bad weather, floods, and other idiosyncratic income shocks? Do existing social institutions help poor households smooth their consumption by mitigating these shocks? Does the existing rural social structure call for special po…
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In this dissertation I analyze economic and social conditions in households and neighborhoods in Upper Mesopotamia, ca. third millennium B.C.E. Most investigations of domestic residences in the ancient Near East have focused on elite residences. In contrast, I analyze wealthy an…
The study is an attempt to model the complex energy consumption behavior in South Asia, where households choose from modern energy resources such as electricity and natural gas, and traditional sources such as wood and biomass. The study uses the Living Standards Measurement Stu…
This research examines the weak condition of pareto efficiency maintained by the unitary and collective models of the household. Farm production data collected from Senegalese households over a two-year period are used to test whether resources are allocated efficiently across m…
This dissertation consists of three theoretical essays on informal insurance, self-insurance, and agricultural productivity. In the first essay, we identify conditions under which risk-sharing institutions are likely to arise and under which full income pooling will be achieved.…
Globally over 3 billion people use solid fuel cookstoves to meet household energy demand. Cookstove emissions lead to household and ambient air pollution, with adverse health and climate impacts. To reduce these harmful impacts, alternative cookstove technologies have been devel…
Bu çalışmada, hanehalkındaki finansal sıkıntının riskli yatırımlardan sakınmak veya riskli yatırım oranını düşürmek yoluyla yatırım riskini düşürme etkisi araştırılmıştır. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde 2016 yılında yapılan Tüketici Finansı Anketi verileri kullanılarak Tobit mo…
This dissertation develops a new approach that enables policy-makers to analyze welfare gains from improvements in the quality of infrastructure services in developing countries where data are limited and supply is subject to interruptions. An application of the proposed model i…
My dissertation focuses on the testing and identification of models of household decision-making, with an emphasis on bargaining between spouses. Chapter 1 provides a framework for analyzing the impact of a change in property division law--a natural experiment that affects spous…
This dissertation consists of three essays examining the micro- and macro-determinants of economic development. In the first essay, focusing on a panel of Indonesian households, we study whether social capital improves household welfare by enabling families to smooth consumption…
This research project investigates the nutritional status of children in vulnerable households in Bangladesh and the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The nutritional status of children is an intrinsically important component of human welfare, as well as a proxy for ov…
These essays explore the debilitating role played by financial crises in economic performance, analyzed at the microeconomic level of the household; the impact of institutions on human capital accumulation, both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels; and the role played …
