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Food Insecurity, Racial Diversity, And Reservation Land: Relationships With The Credit Security Index, Theodor Gordon, Braden Orr
Food Insecurity, Racial Diversity, And Reservation Land: Relationships With The Credit Security Index, Theodor Gordon, Braden Orr
Initiative for Native Nation Relations
The Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibit banks from discriminating based on race, gender, national origin, and other protected categories. Are these laws enough to mitigate the multigenerational impacts of discrimination experienced by these communities? To address this question, this project examined whether unequal access to credit persists in communities on or adjacent to Indian reservations, communities with high levels of racial diversity, and communities where women are a greater percentage of the population than men.
Sustainability At Saint John’S*, Michael Hemesath
Sustainability At Saint John’S*, Michael Hemesath
Administration Publications
No abstract provided.
More Educated And More Equal? A Comparative Analysis Of Female Education And Employment In Japan, China And India, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee
More Educated And More Equal? A Comparative Analysis Of Female Education And Employment In Japan, China And India, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee
Economics Faculty Publications
This paper attempts to explore the connections between expanding female education and the participation of women in paid employment in Japan, China and India, three of Asia's largest economies. Analysis based on existing data and literature shows that despite the large expansion in educational access in these countries in the last half century, women have lacked egalitarian labour market opportunities. A combination of social discouragement and individual choice largely explains the withdrawal, non-participation or intermittent female presence in the labour force, notwithstanding increased educational access. In taking stock of these issues and debates across these countries, it is argued that …
Examining The Effect Of Religion On Economic Growth: A Partial Replication And Extension, Sophia M. Korman
Examining The Effect Of Religion On Economic Growth: A Partial Replication And Extension, Sophia M. Korman
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
Economic growth is the fundamental measurement that assesses a country’s productive capacity in terms of goods and services. It is conventionally estimated using the percent rate of increase in GDP per capita and is correlated with numerous factors in society, among which include quality of life. For example, one application of GDP per capita is as a primary indicator of standard of living. However, although GDP per capita is a reliable determinant of the level of development in a country, it is certainly not the only way to measure well-being. For instance, it fails to capture many important aspects of …
The Determinants Of Chinese Household Saving During 1978-2012, Nan Zhi
The Determinants Of Chinese Household Saving During 1978-2012, Nan Zhi
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
This project focuses on how the household saving ratio changes from 1978-2013 in China and what factors caused the changes. Based China’s household saving rate changes from 1953-2000 by using the framework of the life-cycle hypothesis, Modigliani concluded that the rate of growth income and the demographic structure are the major determinant of the rate of private saving. This project attempts to extend Modigliani’s research using the data after 2000 and take changes of Chinese policy and additional factors into consideration. Estimates of coefficients of saving function will be obtained by using OLS method to analyze the relationship between household …
Philosophy, Not Theology, Is The Key For Economics: A Catholic Perspective, Daniel K. Finn
Philosophy, Not Theology, Is The Key For Economics: A Catholic Perspective, Daniel K. Finn
School of Theology and Seminary Faculty Publications
This essay addresses two important problems with mainstream economics that reduce its usefulness for people of religious faith: its eclipse of the causal forces operating within the ‘black box’ of the market, and its empiricist methodological underpinnings. Yet neither of these problems requires religious resources for a solution. The critical realist philosophy of science of Roy Bhaskar provides a fruitful alternative to empiricism. The insights of critical realist sociologists to understand markets as social structures provide a helpful way to direct economists’ attention to important but neglected market relations.
Rethinking The Connections Between Female Empowerment And Gender Bias In Child Births And Survival In Urban India, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee
Rethinking The Connections Between Female Empowerment And Gender Bias In Child Births And Survival In Urban India, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee
Economics Faculty Publications
Notwithstanding improvements in female work and educational achievements persistent and increasing female survival disadvantage is a feature of urban India’s demography. A temporal and cross sectional analysis of most recent available data from the Census of India while reaffirming the positive association between female work and the birth and survival of more female children, fails to reconfirm the oft emphasized positive connection between female education and increased survival of girl children. Relatively high levels of female education, by being indicative of household socioeconomic status may be associated with increased ability to discriminate especially in the presence of cultural biases resulting …
The Religious Roots Of Modern Economics: Historical Origins And Contemporary Consequences, Benjamin M. Friedman
The Religious Roots Of Modern Economics: Historical Origins And Contemporary Consequences, Benjamin M. Friedman
Clemens Lecture Series
No abstract provided.
The Civil Market: Medieval Franciscan Ideas To Solve 21st Century Economic Problems, Stefano Zamagni
The Civil Market: Medieval Franciscan Ideas To Solve 21st Century Economic Problems, Stefano Zamagni
Clemens Lecture Series
No abstract provided.
Indecent Proposal: Exposing The 1959 Stabilization Plan Of Spain, Stacy L. Morris
Indecent Proposal: Exposing The 1959 Stabilization Plan Of Spain, Stacy L. Morris
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
Spain's Gross Domestic Product throughout the 1960's advanced at 7.5%, ranking it the fastest growing country in Europe, and second most rapidly growing country in the world. Industry replaced agriculture as the dominant sector, Spain adopted an export-oriented trading agenda, and the nation finally became recognized as a competitor in the international market. What led to this "economic miracle"? Indecent Proposal discusses the motives and results of the 1959 Stabilization Plan of Spain, and challenges the claim that this decisive government policy of the Franco regime was the single most decisive element in propelling Spain into the 20th century. This …
Economics, Faith And Welfare Reform: Can We Improve Government Policy For The Poor?, Rebecca Blank
Economics, Faith And Welfare Reform: Can We Improve Government Policy For The Poor?, Rebecca Blank
Clemens Lecture Series
No abstract provided.
The Preferential Option For The Poor: An Economist's Perspective, Stephen T. Worland
The Preferential Option For The Poor: An Economist's Perspective, Stephen T. Worland
Clemens Lecture Series
No abstract provided.