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The hidden risk of conventional floodplain mapping: Diagnosis in Cali, Colombia
(2022-04-05)
Flood hazard maps display the geographical areas inundated by water bodies after extreme rainfall events take place, helping governments focus their efforts and resources on performing works to mitigate disasters produced ...
Intergenerational Mobility and the Children of Migrants in Indonesia
(2022-02-23)
Although there has been substantial increase in human development in Indonesia, individual inequality has not reduced significantly.
This dissertation focuses on intergenerational mobility and its interplay with ...
This dissertation focuses on intergenerational mobility and its interplay with ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-09-05)
Three essays in Applied Microeconomics. The first essay describes a detailed agent based model of disease transmission and its application to the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The second provides methods for uncertainty ...
Essays on Individual Decisions in Large Collectives
(2022-09-01)
This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory on the topic of how individual decisions shape a large collective and how in return the large collective affects the individual behavior. Chapter 1, Voting ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2022-02-03)
This dissertation revolves around two themes: individuals' perceptions of reality and their beliefs about what characterizes a good, fair, and just world. It presents four independent research papers. Chapter 1 ("Shallow ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-03-22)
The first essay investigates the role social environment plays in the development of life satisfaction during childhood and adolescence. Life satisfaction is high among children and declines during adolescence. This decline ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2022-06-01)
This thesis consists of four independent research papers. Chapter 1 ("Media Persuasion and Consumption: Evidence from the Dave Ramsey Show") examines whether entertaining mass media programs can influence individual ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-05-25)
The first two chapters of this thesis are connected by an overarching question: Can we use the electricity price to incentivize electricity consumption when it is plentiful and electricity conservation when it is scarce? ...
Patterns of Urbanization and Economic Development: Evidence from household surveys in Ethiopia
(2022-05-17)
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are urbanizing at an unprecedentedly fast rate. This trend has the potential to affect the welfare of households by altering the degree of urban proximity as well as the size of the ...
Essays in Applied and Theoretical Microeconomics
(2022-06-13)
Science is the discovery of knowledge. The process of this discovery is based on two ingredients: hypothesizing – often guided by theoretical abstraction and deductive reasoning – and testing in the form of empirical ...