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This paper provides an international comparison of rates of intergenerational income mobility. Age-dependence of income persistence estimates (explained and quantified in this work) suggests that comparisons of multiple studies using different selection rules will result in erro…

Endogenous growth theories link a country's stock of human capital to growth and development. Thus, raising the stock of human capital is a major policy priority of developing countries. Yet, the existing literature remains mostly inconclusive on what the governments can do to r…

This dissertation consists of three chapters in public and labor economics. A theme throughout these chapters is using empirical analysis to study the outcomes of low-income and immigrant individuals in the United States as well as the effects of public policies on these communi…

The last two centuries have seen dramatic shifts in labor and demography: a precipitous drop in fertility rates, a dramatic increase in human capital, and the economic empowerment of women. Economic theorists often hypothesize that these transformations played a vital role in th…