Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City This Online Appendix presents
a number of complementary results. Section A. 1 presents auxiliary propositions and …

This thesis consists of three chapters on the economics of education and labor market.
Chapter 1 focuses on discontinuation decisions at the Technical University of Denmark, and …

Essays in Public Economics Page 1 University of California Santa Barbara Essays in Public
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Causal inference is a constant theme in econometrics. In this dissertation, I explore three
issues related to policy analysis within the context of complex data structures. In the first …

Chapter 1 studies the effect of different feedback structures on belief updating in an ego-
relevant task using a controlled experiment. Across treatments, subjects receive feedback …

This dissertation offers some theoretical and practical contributions to the relatively sparse
literature on the bootstrap in state space models. In the first chapter, we present the rationale …

Notation: Hereafter, we use the abbreviations CLT, CMT, LIE, and LLN to represent the
central limit theorem, continuous mapping theorem, law of iterated expectations, and law of …

The Proximal Bootstrap for Constrained Estimators ∗ Page 1 The Proximal Bootstrap for
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The severity of man-made disasters has been increasing recently and is expected to further
increase with climate change. For example, the number of conflicts and their associated …