Essays on Inequality and Market Failure

This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter develops a research design to estimate the causal effect of parental layoffs and income during adolescence on children's college outcomes, and implements this design on administrative data for the United States. The design compares...

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Main Author: Hilger, Nathaniel Green
Other Authors: Chetty, Nadarajan
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10853
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11129107