Award Type
First Prize
Dissertation Advisor
Lawrence Katz
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Abstract
This dissertation consists of three independent essays in labor and public economics. The first presents evidence on the substitutability between workers within a firm, and between incumbent workers and outsiders, which matter for understanding the operation of internal labor markets and the consequences of worker turnover. The second chapter proposes a permutation test for the Regression Kink design—an increasingly popular empirical method for causal inference. The third chapter analyzes a laboratory experiment to study how tax complexity affects people's reactions to tax changes.
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