The economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was
a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense—a deeply flawed approach to …

Hundreds of thousands of high-school students skipped school during the 2011 student
movement in Chile to protest and reform educational institutions. Using administrative data …

The interaction of economic agents is one of the most important elements in economic
analyses. Social interactions on subjective outcomes, behavior, or decisions, are inherently …

This paper studies nonparametric estimation of treatment and spillover effects using
observational data from a single large network. We consider a model in which interference …

This chapter discusses two main issues relating to the econometrics of models of social
interactions. First, this chapter discusses the identification of models of social interactions …

This paper studies the dependence structure of sparse networks realized according to a
strategic model of network formation with homophilous agents. We argue that equilibrium …

Victor Aguirregabiria and Junichi Suzuki 1 intRoduction competition in retail markets is often
characterized by the importance of geographic location. the distance from a store to potential …

In this thesis I build and test a theory combining societal explanations of politics with rational
choice institutional models. Every theory or model of democratic institutions includes …

Analyses of treatments, experiments, policies, and observational data, are confounded when
people's treatment choices and/or outcomes are influenced by those of their friends and …

Infrastructure provides critical support to the economy and contributes in an important way to
living standards; assessing the economic role of infrastructure requires defining and …