Optimal designs provide a very efficient way to maximize the amount of information gained in an experiment. For linear models the information is a factor of the covariates, but for non-linear models maximizing the information becomes more difficult because of the relationship of information with...

This dissertation is comprised of three essays on nonparametric Bayesian modeling in microeconometrics. The introduction discusses some basic concepts of Bayesian nonparametrics including the Dirichlet process and the mixture of Dirichlet processes model. Further, the literature on estimating...