In this thesis, I study an increasingly-common feature of modern labor markets: the decentralization of workers away from firms and towards independent labor provision. I provide new insights into the type of labor-market organization behind the gig-economy, freelancing, and independent...

The ability to search is an essential cognitive skill that underlies many human activities, from survival in primordial environments to finding good deals in modern economic markets. The present research uses laboratory-based experiments to explore the strategies and information that consumers...