The subject of the present thesis is to apply microeconometrictechniques to labor economics and criminal behavior. There are twoindependent chapters. The aim of chapter one is to build andestimate an econometric model of recidivism for the United Statesusing data set of released prisoners from...

This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter investigates how the functional operator used in Kocherlakota (1996) is linked to the game underlying the model. Using the machinery developed by Abreu et al. (1990) (APS) I solve for the set of equilibrium value profiles directly....