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O'Keeffe-O'Donovan, Rossa.

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Social Interactions in Empirical Microeconomics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Social Interactions in Empirical Microeconomics./
Author:	O'Keeffe-O'Donovan, Rossa.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	222 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10273793
ISBN:	9780355129700

Social Interactions in Empirical Microeconomics.
O'Keeffe-O'Donovan, Rossa.

Social Interactions in Empirical Microeconomics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 222 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

This dissertation studies the effects of social interactions in two different areas of empirical microeconomics. The first chapter focuses on the effects of decentralized provision of public goods by a variety of state and non-governmental agencies in developing countries. In particular, I find evidence of strategic interactions between neighboring communities in the provision of water in rural Tanzania: communities simultaneously free ride on, and receive positive spillovers from, each other's investments in public goods. In order to disentangle these two effects, I model the maintenance of pumps as a network game between neighboring communities, and estimate the model using geo-coded data. Decentralized provision of public goods is costly in this setting, and I estimate that greater coordination between organizations installing water pumps would increase pump functionality rates, and result in modest improvements in school attendance and child survival rates.

ISBN: 9780355129700Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

Social Interactions in Empirical Microeconomics.
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