The thesis covers three different topics in empirical microeconomics. The first chapter looks at how firms' organizational form affects investment financing constraints. I show conditions in which information asymmetry is severe and bankruptcy courts are ineffective, organizatio…
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The existing literature on microfinance has largely attributed the industry's success to joint liability and peer monitoring, which are direct results of the group lending methodology. Since individual lending has become more common as microfinance has spread beyond Bangladesh, …
Each chapter of this dissertation studies a different question within the field of Applied Microeconomics. The first chapter examines the mid- and long-term effects of the 1998 Asian Crisis on the educational attainment of Indonesian children ages 6 to 18, at the time of the cri…
The essays in applied microeconomics contained within this dissertation examine prices in the developing economy contexts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Prices, observed and unobserved, are determined by and incentivize the behavior of all agents in the economy. Prices descri…
We take a critical view of the standard approach to finance and growth. The mapping between the theory and empirics is shown to be poorly understood, and this is traced to deficiencies in our understanding of the microeconomics at play. By looking at both primary and secondary h…
The two essays in my thesis demonstrate that accounting for area level heterogeneity is critical to making an accurate assessment of program effects, and thus to quantifying the benefits from program placement. In the first essay, I estimate the long run benefits of participatio…
The dissertation consists of three essays in applied economics. The first essay, Decentralizing Development. Allocating Public Goods via Competition , analyzes a World Bank attempt to overcome a lack of local accountability in community driven development programs by having Indo…
This dissertation is an empirical investigation on the microeconomics of growth, focusing on the role of shocks and on the formation of credit networks. It uses original data, collected in Southern Ethiopia, an environment where nonlinear wealth dynamics that are at the root of …