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…
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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 …