Economics - Ph.D. / Sc.D.

Essays on social insurance program design ?

Gray, Colin(Colin Travis) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)

This thesis studies the causal impacts of social insurance program design on household behavior and program-relevant outcomes. Each paper considers a major design feature of a large social insurance program - work requirements, ...
The political dimension of labor-management relations: national trends and state level developments in Massachusetts ?

Saunders, Phillip. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964)
Essays on empirical macroeconomics ?

Hazell, Jonathon. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)

This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I study downward wage rigidity. Downward wage rigidity is central to many explanations of unemployment fluctuations. In benchmark ...