Essays in applied economics : evidence from natural experiments
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- I present 3 chapters that utilize natural and laboratory experiments to explain economic phenomena. In the first chapter, I use a natural experiment on the Yahoo! front page to identify the effectiveness of targeted advertising. The experiment randomizes users into seeing a test or a control ad and I can therefore estimate the search and clicks for the targeted and untargeted populations on both the test and control ad and can cleanly identify the effectiveness of targeting. In the second chapter, I look at a quasi natural experiment from the history of the territory of Utah. An economic crisis spawned some communities to form what was known as a United Order, or a communal type living situation. I analyze how this societal experiment influenced equality, production, and migration. Finally, in the third chapter, I investigate sequential versus simultaneous presentation of choices through a series of laboratory and field experiments.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Bailey, Michael Charles |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
| Primary advisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Thesis advisor | Bresnahan, Timothy F |
| Advisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Advisor | Bresnahan, Timothy F |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Michael C. Bailey. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Michael Charles Bailey
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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