ESSAYS ON LABOR HETEROGENEITY AND MACROECONOMICS

Thank you for paving the road. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am very grateful to my doctoral committee, Mike Elsby, Miles Kimball (my co-author on my second essay), Je ¤ Smith, and Brian Jacob for their invaluable help, support, and advise. I am also grateful to Ronda Abrigo, Mary Braun, and Olga Mustata, who have helped make everything so much easier for me throughout graduate school. Finally, I am very thankful to Dimitriy Masterov, Shanthi Ramnath (my co-author on my third essay), and Elena Spatoulas for their friendship and countless contributions to my work. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii LIST OF FIGURES vi