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Do U.S. Border Enforcement Operations Increase Human Smuggling Fees Along The U.S.-Mexico Border?, Kyle Coombs
Do U.S. Border Enforcement Operations Increase Human Smuggling Fees Along The U.S.-Mexico Border?, Kyle Coombs
Economics Honors Projects
Undocumented migrants frequently hire border crossing experts, called “coyotes” to facilitate a successful, safer crossing. U.S. border enforcement actively counters these migrants. U.S. measures of enforcement and coyote fees grew together during the 20th century, suggesting a connection between enforcement and the coyote market. This paper tests the effect of border patrol agents and operations on coyote fees using a dataset compiled from the Mexican Migration Project, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Sentencing Commission. I do not find a significant connection between coyote fees and border enforcement, but do show …
Trading On The Margins: To What Extent Do Developing Countries Benefit From Wto Membership?, Alison Goodrum
Trading On The Margins: To What Extent Do Developing Countries Benefit From Wto Membership?, Alison Goodrum
Economics Honors Projects
Building off of the analysis and statistical technique of Liu (2009), this paper examines the intersection between membership in the World Trade Organization and development status and their effects on the intensive and extensive margins of trade. This paper uses year by country pair panel data spanning the years 1950 to 2003 and covering 28,442 country pairs. Guided by the Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) model of heterogeneous firms, this paper finds that the intersection between development status and WTO membership has a positive net effect on trade flows. Contrary to the previous literature, however, the net effects across the …
How Much Of The Heterogeneity In Returns To College Major Can Be Explained By Institution Type?, Olivia Warner
How Much Of The Heterogeneity In Returns To College Major Can Be Explained By Institution Type?, Olivia Warner
Economics Honors Projects
Rising post-secondary education costs have increased the importance of undergraduate students’ institution and field of study choices, two aspects of higher education that affect post-graduation earnings. This paper analyzes the impact of the interaction between college major and attending a liberal arts institution on post-graduation wages. Using data on Minnesota bachelor’s degree completers who were employed at Minnesota firms 6 to 18 months after graduation, I find robust evidence that the interaction is significant. Liberal arts students are disadvantaged when other institutional and individual characteristics are controlled for, but they may be relatively less so depending on field of study.
What Is The Relationship Between Labor Law Compliance And Employment Growth In Cambodian Garment Exporting Factories?, Vidarith Chan
What Is The Relationship Between Labor Law Compliance And Employment Growth In Cambodian Garment Exporting Factories?, Vidarith Chan
Economics Honors Projects
In this study, I examine the short- and long-run relationship between labor law compliance and employment growth in the Cambodian garment exporting factories. My paper contributes to the literature in two ways. First, I use the original working conditions dataset (2001-2013) from the International Labor Organization's Better Factories Cambodia that has not been analyzed before. Second, I use panel data techniques to investigate the short- and long-run relationship between labor law compliance and employment growth. In the short-run, I find that labor law compliance has an inverse relationship with employment growth. However, in the long-run, the sign of the relationship …
Do Workforce Development Programs In Minnesota Increase Wages?, Anna Jacob
Do Workforce Development Programs In Minnesota Increase Wages?, Anna Jacob
Economics Honors Projects
Job training serves as an opportunity for many citizens to develop workplace skills and technical training. Due to current debates on the effectiveness of state facilitated workforce development, program evaluations are a critical tool to analyze the net impact of job training. This paper used Kernel Density Propensity Score Difference-in-Differences estimation techniques to estimate the effect of workforce development training programs on wages. Using panel data from administrative records, I provide evidence that the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker programs in the State of Minnesota offered significant benefits to participants for several cohorts from 2007-2010.