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The Evolutionary Global Vision Of Chinese Political Philosophy; China's Socio-Economic Transformation In The 21st Century, Meryem Gurel
The Evolutionary Global Vision Of Chinese Political Philosophy; China's Socio-Economic Transformation In The 21st Century, Meryem Gurel
Master's Projects and Capstones
Evolving relations of East Asia due to trade liberalization raised the search for financial stability for institutional development. It also increased the importance of China integrating the global economy into renewing its political philosophy in the new century. This capstone project aims to examine why China has transformed its socio-economic structure by generating outward investments and how it has affected international political relations in terms of the role of the economic institution Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Quantitative methodology aims to examine the impact of China’s export trade on income distribution and economic growth through linear regression analysis for the …
Social Determinants Of Health: The Impact On Health Outcomes And Hospital Profitability, Danielle Mcpherson
Social Determinants Of Health: The Impact On Health Outcomes And Hospital Profitability, Danielle Mcpherson
Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations
Hospitals are experiencing decreasing profitability due to increasing healthcare cost. In this paper, I demonstrate that there is financial value to hospitals by addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) as this strategy improves health outcomes and yields cost savings. I estimate the impact of SDOH on the health outcomes using an IV probit regression analysis and estimated the impact of health outcomes on cost using a basic linear regression. I estimate that improving SDOH by one standard deviation will result in hospital cost savings as follows: addressing Violent Crime will decrease hospital cost between 0.16% and 0.21%, addressing Supplemental Nutrition …
Federation Divided, Max M. Balton
Federation Divided, Max M. Balton
Capstones
At the start of the 2020 school year, a lack of covid safety plans led teachers like Rosy Clark to protest, urging her union the United Federation of Teachers to act. She and other progressives in the dissident caucus, Movement of Rank and File Educators, were willing to strike to ensure their safety. Union leadership hesitated largely because public union strikes are illegal under the state’s Taylor Law.
This four-part audio documentary looks at the history of the UFT and this contentious state law. The union began striking under more onerous strike prohibition legislation. Its roots are steeped in radical …
Three Chapters On Transportation And Its Impact On Employment And Health Visits For Low-Income Adults In The Southwest, Michael Hensley
Three Chapters On Transportation And Its Impact On Employment And Health Visits For Low-Income Adults In The Southwest, Michael Hensley
Economics ETDs
Many barriers to employment and healthcare access in the United States exist. Barriers to employment include lack of education, homelessness, or a criminal background. Barriers to healthcare include lack of insurance, lack of medical knowledge, and the inability to pay for service. This dissertation examines the role of transportation access and if transportation access is a burden for employment and healthcare access in the Southwest United States. This dissertation also examines if those differences are different based on gender, race, and ethnicity. The 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) serves as the data source for this dissertation.
Chapter 1 gives …
Nyc’S Boom: More Jobs And Housing, No Affordability, Lacandis Brown
Nyc’S Boom: More Jobs And Housing, No Affordability, Lacandis Brown
Capstones
Although the number of NYC jobs is steadily growing faster than housing units are being created. Housing units are still being made in abundance, but residents say these new jobs just don't provide an adequate wage necessary to live within them.
https://lacandisbrown.home.blog/2020/06/19/nycs-boom-more-jobs-and-housing-no-affordability/
Mum’S The Word: Are Mothers Choosing To Give Up Their Careers Or Being Booted Out Of The Labor Force?, Harini Chakrapani
Mum’S The Word: Are Mothers Choosing To Give Up Their Careers Or Being Booted Out Of The Labor Force?, Harini Chakrapani
Capstones
Since the pandemic began, mothers have been leaving the labor force in droves. Mum’s the Word: Are mothers choosing to give up their careers or being booted out of the labor force examines the reasons that are forcing mothers to quit their jobs, the cost of mothers’ not participating in the labor force and what steps corporations and the government can take to support mothers’ return to the labor force. https://www.hcpani.com/post/mum-s-the-word-are-mothers-choosing-to-give-up-their-careers-or-being-booted-out-of-the-labor-force
Financial Literacy For Latino Immigrants: A Guidebook For Esl Teachers, Anna Braden
Financial Literacy For Latino Immigrants: A Guidebook For Esl Teachers, Anna Braden
Master's Projects and Capstones
Latino immigrants face many financial challenges in the United States. Language barriers exclude them from jobs as well as financial and consumer markets. Lack of familiarity with the U.S. financial system or bad experiences with financial systems in their home countries can create mistrust and lead to Latino immigrants being unbanked or underbanked. Consumer vulnerabilities may also be exploited as immigrants turn to nonbank financial services such as predatory lenders (check cashers, payday lenders, etc.). Lack of access to jobs and marketplaces results in lower income and less wealth accumulation. Over time this results in wealth inequality between Latino immigrants …
An Understanding Of Prisons, Race, And Class In The United States, Seth Ketchum
An Understanding Of Prisons, Race, And Class In The United States, Seth Ketchum
Honors Projects
After a summer of protests sparked by police brutality, the United States remains divided on this most important issue. This paper will seek to contextualize this country’s situation to explain that these protests stem from a history of inequality, in order to argue against claims that the protests are unjustified. With a multidisciplinary approach, we can begin to observe just how unequal this country is and understand what drives so many people to protest during the middle of a global pandemic.
Gender Differences In The Mental Health Of Parents During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Lucia Regina Gomes
Gender Differences In The Mental Health Of Parents During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Lucia Regina Gomes
Economics
The global COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of many in the world. With stay-at-home orders and schools transitioning to remote learning, the mental health of parents specifically has become an important topic for research. This paper utilizes Ordinary Least Squares Regression to examine the effect of gender on depleted mental health among U.S. parents. The results indicate an association between mothers and worsened mental health during the onset of the pandemic in the U.S.
Essays On Private And Public Debts, Financial Integration And Economic Volatility, Prince Osei-Sarfo
Essays On Private And Public Debts, Financial Integration And Economic Volatility, Prince Osei-Sarfo
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation consists of two essays on surges of private and public debt flows and how these debt flows through financial integration affect output and consumption volatility (risk sharing) in emerging markets. Chapter 1 focuses on a common characteristic of many of the recent emerging market financial crises – a preceding surge in the debt inflows not only in the public but also in the private sector. In this chapter, I examine the drivers of the occurrence and magnitude of foreign debt surges to 28 emerging market economies (EMEs) over 1990-2016. Using the threshold method of defining a surge on …
Does Attending A More Elite School Lead To Better Labor Market Outcomes?: Evidence From The College Football Labor Market Using Screening Information, Kyle Brookman
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
College football prospects in the market for an athletic scholarship face similar career-altering choices as traditional academic students when selecting a college, however, the market they operate in is very different. They are actively recruited by university coaches and closely observed by a college sports scouting industry. Their choice of school is highly anticipated and publicized within college sport culture. College football is no doubt a lucrative industry, particularly for the elite university football programs, but one may want to know if the athletic scholars themselves gain in any career measurable way by attending a more elite university football program. …
The Economic And Health Impacts Of Community Gardens On Refugee Populations: Cric Garden Case Study, Joseph Montoya
The Economic And Health Impacts Of Community Gardens On Refugee Populations: Cric Garden Case Study, Joseph Montoya
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The purpose of this paper is to examine the economic benefits of community gardens and incubator farms, both of which support the populations they serve from an economic viewpoint as well as socially, and as a benefit to public health and nutrition. The findings were gathered from the large body of research concerning the benefits of community gardens as well as program evaluation responses conducted with gardeners at the Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection (CRIC) garden in Logan, Utah in 2020. They are also informed by experiences had and lessons learned while working as the garden manager. There is a …
Essays On Financial Frictions, Shipping Frequency And Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Md Deluair Hossen
Essays On Financial Frictions, Shipping Frequency And Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Md Deluair Hossen
Doctoral Dissertations
In three chapters of this dissertation, I examine financing frictions, shipping frequency, and exchange rate pass-through.
In the first chapter, I develop a model of importer-exporter procurement where the importer is procuring international inputs from the exporting firms located in developing countries. The exporters are credit constrained for working capital, incur the per-shipment fixed costs, and get paid after goods delivered to the importer. The model shows that for high financing costs in origin and destination, the shipping frequency increases. Furthermore, longer delivery times increase shipping frequency as well as procurement costs. The model also shows that the higher per-shipment …
Three Essays On International Financial And Monetary Interactions, Kemal Burak Bekircan
Three Essays On International Financial And Monetary Interactions, Kemal Burak Bekircan
Dissertations
This dissertation develops three essays on safe haven currency behavior and international monetary interactions.
Essay one notes the dramatic appreciation of the U.S. dollar vis-à-vis all world currencies, along with its reversal after a year on the account of the Great Recession. This paper investigates bilateral U.S. dollar exchange rate movements during and in the aftermath of the Great Recession. I find that increasing global market uncertainty has a significant and consistent effect in strengthening of the U.S. dollar. This striking finding suggests flight-to-safety phenomenon of foreign investors, and repatriation of capital flows to the United States by the U.S. …
Three Essays On Health Economics, Jihye Kim
Three Essays On Health Economics, Jihye Kim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis focuses on various factors affecting health of American adults and the elderly based on the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). In chapter 1, I examine the role of educational and racial differences in life expectancy (LE) and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) for Americans at ages 45-64 using Health and Retirement Study (HRS) during 2000-2016. I compute severity-weighted prevalence of diseases with comorbidity adjustments based on the Global Burden of Disease (2015), and map onto the information on 17 doctor-diagnosed diseases and four self-rated disabling health conditions from HRS. This approach allows us to evaluate the importance of major …
Well-Being Indicators, Social Globalization, And Unaccompanied Child Migration From Central America, Lucia Farriss
Well-Being Indicators, Social Globalization, And Unaccompanied Child Migration From Central America, Lucia Farriss
Dissertations
This research investigates the effect of well-being indictors and social globalization on the migration of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from Central America. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the surge in UAC that began in 2014 at the United States southern border is driven primarily by violence, or whether other factors are at play. Using data for the period 2008-2018, the apprehension of UAC serves as a proxy for measuring unaccompanied child migration to the United States. The four countries of focus are El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico as they contribute the largest numbers of child …
An Economic Analysis Of Using Retired Vessels To Create Artificial Reefs In Costa Rica, Josué González
An Economic Analysis Of Using Retired Vessels To Create Artificial Reefs In Costa Rica, Josué González
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
The Republic of Costa Rica is a Central American country with only 0.03% of the world’s landmass, but 5% of the world’s biodiversity, making it a leading ecotourism destination. Ecotourism is one of the main sources of revenue for the country, but the degradation of coastal reefs has resulted in a significant loss of financial income for developing areas. As a result, many of these areas are searching for methods to revert the degradation of coral reefs.
Artificial reefs play an important ecological role in marine ecosystems due to their complexity and size. They help in the development of …
Selling To Reference-Dependent Consumers, Hin Shing Leung
Selling To Reference-Dependent Consumers, Hin Shing Leung
Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)
This research studies the optimal price charged by a monopoly firm when it is facing reference-dependent consumers (Kőszegi and Rabin, 2006). In the model, a consumer’s total utility from purchasing a good consists of intrinsic utility and gainloss utility, the latter of which is determined by an exogenously determined reference point. The firm’s optimal pricing depends on the level of the reference point. In particular, the firm optimally adopts a gain-type pricing strategy when the reference point is low. In this equilibrium, all consumers who purchase enjoy gain utility (gaintype consumers). When the reference point is high the firm optimally …
Essays In Labor Economics, Tianfang Li
Essays In Labor Economics, Tianfang Li
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation consists of two chapters on labor economics. Despite differentia between topics, both share a similar property: causal effects analysis in the presence of unobserved variables. The first chapter examines the effects of China's two-child policy on childbearing, marriage, and female labor force participation. Using data from the China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey (CLDS) for 2012, 2014 and 2016, it generates three broad results. First, the universal two-child policy had a significant positive impact on having a second child during a portion of its phase-in. Second, the two-child policy did not influence the likelihood of marriage for young people. Third, …
The Relationship Between The Earning Of Career And Technical Industry Credentials And The Virginia Economy, Anjanette Mcfadden Hendricks
The Relationship Between The Earning Of Career And Technical Industry Credentials And The Virginia Economy, Anjanette Mcfadden Hendricks
Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations
Nationally, the labor market is calling out for workers to fill the increasing number of job vacancies, but those qualified, skilled, and able to fill them are limited in supply or retiring in large numbers. As America’s key industries offer high salaries in return for candidates with the necessary skills and credentials to fill their vacancies, the skills learned and third-party industry credentials earned in secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs seem to make a perfect fit for the student, employer, and the economy. However, unlike the favored US educational model of the four-year degree, the continued outdated perception …
Aporte De La Industria Automotriz Al Crecimiento Del Sector Secundario Y Cómo Impactan Las Tendencias Actuales En El Crecimiento Económico Del Sector, Luis Vicente Pinillos Romero
Aporte De La Industria Automotriz Al Crecimiento Del Sector Secundario Y Cómo Impactan Las Tendencias Actuales En El Crecimiento Económico Del Sector, Luis Vicente Pinillos Romero
Economía
En la investigación se hizo un análisis del aporte de la industria automotriz al crecimiento del sector secundario y cómo impactan las tendencias actuales en el crecimiento económico del sector. En vista de que Colombia únicamente ensambla automóviles Renault y Chevrolet, la industria del automóvil en Colombia, a pesar de su tamaño, tiene las características para convertirse en clave para el desarrollo de la economía colombiana. Para el adelanto de la monografía se formulan los siguientes objetivos: Analizar las tendencias actuales de producción de vehículos en Colombia y su aporte al sector secundario de 2015 - 2019. Indagar las preferencias …
How Effective Are African Health Systems? An Analysis Of Guinea, Liberia And Sierra Leone, Kale A. Adote
How Effective Are African Health Systems? An Analysis Of Guinea, Liberia And Sierra Leone, Kale A. Adote
HON499 projects
While developed countries in the rest of the world have found themselves overwhelmed by the Covid-19 pandemic, in comparison, Africa has been minimally affected given that it has reported lower case counts since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. However, given the destructive potential of this pandemic, this raises the question: how prepared are health systems in Africa to face major outbreaks? To answer this question, this article explored the state of health systems and epidemic preparedness in African countries using Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as case studies. Given that these three countries were epicentre countries during …
Chad: Human Fertility, Crop Production And Changing Weather Patterns, Jake Organ
Chad: Human Fertility, Crop Production And Changing Weather Patterns, Jake Organ
Economics ETDs
The subject of this dissertation is the effect of changing weather patterns on human fertility in Chad, Sahelian Africa. There is a body of literature on the effect of extreme weather events-usually associated with large-scale mortality-and human fertility. However, there is less of a body of literature on the effects of less extreme changing weather patterns and human fertility. Chad has known substantial warming since the late 1960s, hence I use rising heat as a proxy for changing weather patterns. Using GIS-coded fertility and weather data, I look for correlations between the birth rate and the number of days in …
Examination Of Institutional Investment In The United States Of America From 1999 To 2018, Martin R. Lefebvre
Examination Of Institutional Investment In The United States Of America From 1999 To 2018, Martin R. Lefebvre
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis examines the evolution of spatial preference of institutional investors located in the United States of America for the time period of 1999 to 2018 using a mix of exploratory data analysis techniques and more sophisticated space-time and machine learning techniques such as ESRI Space-Time cube and Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling. This thesis concludes that despite having the appearance of a footloose industry due to almost negligible fixed costs, institutional investors are attracted to highly dynamic urban centres and on the 20 year time horizon, appear surprisingly sticky in their location preference. This is consistent with the belief …
An Impact Of Maritime Trade On The Nigerian Economy, Femi Emmanuel Ogunleye
An Impact Of Maritime Trade On The Nigerian Economy, Femi Emmanuel Ogunleye
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Relationship Between Port Performance And Economic Development : A Case Study On The Freeport Of Monrovia, Deanna Dolobah-Togba
Relationship Between Port Performance And Economic Development : A Case Study On The Freeport Of Monrovia, Deanna Dolobah-Togba
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Factors Influencing The Dry Bulk Sales And Purchase Market : Capesize Vessels, Alexandros N. Atzas
Factors Influencing The Dry Bulk Sales And Purchase Market : Capesize Vessels, Alexandros N. Atzas
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Adding Data-Driven Modelling To Causal Inference And Financial Economics, Sha Wang
Adding Data-Driven Modelling To Causal Inference And Financial Economics, Sha Wang
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
My thesis, which consists of three chapters, aims to either adapt ML to solve important questions in financial markets, or apply state-of-the art ML methodologies that specifically target on economic causal inference problems. The first chapter is adapted from a paper co-authored with Lars Stentoft and published on the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2019. We modified a ML model in order to develop a portfolio tracking strategy that solves a pain point for investors. Many investors try to replicate the performance of certain financial instrument, such as a hedge fund strategy return index for its desirable risk-return profile. However, …
Essays On Student Loans And Returns To Skill, Qian Liu
Essays On Student Loans And Returns To Skill, Qian Liu
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis consists of three studies, which explore topics related to labor economics. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the returns on student loans and student loan repayment policy, respectively. Chapter 4 examines the returns to skill and the evolution of skills at older ages.
In Chapter 2 (co-authored with Lance Lochner), we study rates of return on government student loans in Canada using novel administrative data from the Canada Student Loans Program. We exploit rich information on personal characteristics, loan amounts, field of study, and institution of attendance to explain differences in rates of return across different types of borrowers. …
Essays On Share Repurchases And Boom-Bust Cycles, Bohan Li
Essays On Share Repurchases And Boom-Bust Cycles, Bohan Li
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
My doctoral dissertation consists of three chapters on financial economics. In the first chapter, I examine whether a firm's share repurchases and issuances reveal information on its future 2-year stock returns. Firm-quarter observations with repurchases or issuances are each divided into twenty 5-percentile bins sorted by their magnitude. I regress 2-year future stock returns on the bins and find a non-linear relationship between the change in shares outstanding and returns. Firms making repurchases (issuances) of less than 9.3% (1.4%) of shares outstanding outperform the equal-weight portfolio by 6.4% (3.9%). These observations account for 90% of repurchases and 70% of issuances. …