This dissertation examines the trading behavior of retail investors using large datasets and both causal inference and structural estimation methods. The study has two main objectives: to understand the heterogeneity across different investors and to quantify the price impacts of various trading...

This dissertation explores empirical questions in corporate finance and industrial economics, particularly the mobile application (app) market. The first chapter is titled “Venture Capital Investment and the Role of Traction: Evidence from Mobile Entrepreneurship.” An ongoing debate is how...

This dissertation consists of two chapters of in-depth empirical analyses in the domain of public economics, and one chapter of causal inference methodology regarding distributional robustness. The first chapter is titled ``The Effect of Air Pollution on Academic Performances: Evidence from...

This dissertation combines three essays studying the relationship between fertility decisions and labor market inequality. The first chapter studies the effect of providing abortions for free on women's fertility decisions and career outcomes. The second chapter looks at the importance of...

This dissertation studies fiscal policy, specifically the efficiency and electoral constraints on tax policy, and the measurement of public sector health to increase the effectiveness of government spending. Chapter 1 studies high-income taxpayer responses through the tax base channel to changes...

1. I develop a two-city model to explain a new stylized fact: high-income cities specialize in income-elastic sectors. The model has heterogeneous income elasticities and mobile agents, and either heterogeneous fundamental productivities or heterogeneous amenities generate the specialization...

This thesis contains three essays related to the measurement and origins of inequality. The first two essays consider the Chicago public schools during the early 20th century. In the first essay, I evaluate the impact of school quality on child outcomes. Then I consider the impact of racial...

This dissertation is comprised of three chapters in industrial organization, environmental economics and energy economics. In Chapter 2, I study carbon dioxide emission abatement technology for industries participating in the world’s biggest emissions market, the European Union Emission...