This paper examines the short-run impacts of a change in residential neighborhood on the
well-being of low-income families, using evidence from a program in which eligibility for a housing
voucher was determined by random lottery. We examine the experiences of…

Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) was one of Germany's first freelance authors to make a living by his pen under the conditions of early mass media. A tireless producer of texts in a variety of genres, from novels and novellas to newspaper…

This dissertation explores the ways in which medical experts conceptualized the impact of the contraceptive pill on women's psyches over the course of the 1960s. Analyzing journal articles, popular books, institutional archives, pill packages and advertisements, the project traces representations…

This dissertation maps the ethnographic and archaeological work of the Dutch architects Aldo van Eyck and Herman Haan between 1947 and 1967, including van Eyck's writings, editorial work, and encounter with the sub-Saharan Dogon people, and Haan's expeditions and ethnographic…

This thesis is a collection of essays in the economics of health insurance, health, and fertility. The three essays each explore distinct and unconnected research questions. The first study asks whether differences in health risk can explain the systematically different…