Drawing on 18 in-depth, narrative interviews, this thesis responds to an emerging theoretical literature which seeks to understand how state immigration policy affects migrant decision-making with an empirical contribution. While economic and refugee migration are generally cons…
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Historical events have persitent effects on contemporary economic development. This paper studies a natural experiment of ethnic segregation. In its colonial foundation, the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, was divided into two kinds of settlements: one for the Spaniards and one for…
The evolution of resistance in response to herbicides is a striking example of repeated, human-induced evolution. While much is known about the effects of particular point mutations that confer resistance, the extent to which they arise repeatedly de novo, draw from standing var…
Economists often evaluate public policies by measuring the effects of those policies on participants' wage income. I use two historical settings to argue that this focus on wage income biases estimates of the returns to education, the returns to local investment, and the measure…
This dissertation is comprised of three essays. Chapter 1 is about a house titling program, called Khaya Lam, in South Africa. Despite it being legal in South Africa to acquire a title deed to a government-issued home, roughly 20 million South Africans do not hold title to their…
The 1990’s in India were a time of incredible transformation, both in economic and social terms. With the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, state-led developmentalism increasingly ceded ground to private investment, and social relations underwent a concomitantly rapi…
My dissertation studies the political impacts of media and information technologies in American history. The first chapter employs novel data to examine the electric telegraph's impacts on political participation and news coverage in the mid-19th century America. I use proximity…
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a public health challenge as it causes considerable long-term disability and mortality, creating an important economic burden for society. Accurate and timely assessments of the TBI burden provide evidence to justify the allocation of healthc…
This thesis investigates the social, economic and political impact of the Great War (1914-1918) on the Northern Territory (NT), although for the most part the thesis concentrates on Darwin and the top end of the NT as that is where the Commonwealth’s efforts at developing the so…
British Hong Kong was a “borrowed place living on borrowed time”, Richard Hughes, an Australian journalist, wrote in 1968. This thesis attested that the “1997 Question”, i.e. the perplexity stemming from the expiry of the New Territories Lease in 1997, had a considerable impact …
The UN has designated 2021-2030 the decade of restoration, reflecting a global recognition that our planet is changing so rapidly that conservation alone is not enough, and we must restore some of the ecosystems we have lost. Ecosystems, however, are extremely complex and thus f…