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Evaluating College Students' Attitudes And Understanding Of Recycling, Taylor Shipley

Honors Program Theses

Individuals have different habits, beliefs, and knowledge regarding recycling. These can be due to a variety of reasons such as peers, upbringing, accessibility of recycling, or prior knowledge of what can be recycled. A school setting, in particular, can be influential to a student’s motivation to recycle; schools can provide an environment for students to learn about the importance of recycling and other various sustainability initiatives. Like most campuses, students’ recycling behaviors on the University of Northern Iowa’s (UNI) campus are likely to be affected to some degree by the reasons listed above as well as other life experiences.

Recycling …

Homeownership By Race: Factors That Explain The Homeownership Gap Between Blacks And Whites, Sarah Madsen

Honors Program Theses

A key source of wealth and a symbol of hard work, homeownership is at the heart of the American Dream. The disparity of homeownership between whites and blacks has existed for decades and has only increased. The homeownership rate gap is wider now than before the 1968 Fair Housing Act, with about a 30-percentage point gap. This paper investigates the reasons for the homeownership rate gap by discussing policies history, discriminatory practices, and other minority disadvantages.

Culture, Institutions & The Long Divergence, Alberto Bisin, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror, Thierry Verdier

ESI Working Papers

During the medieval and early modern periods the Middle East lost its economic advantage relative to the West. Recent explanations of this historical phenomenon— called the Long Divergence—focus on these regions’ distinct political economy choices regarding religious legitimacy and limited governance. We study these features in a political economy model of the interactions between rulers, secular and clerical elites, and civil society. The model induces a joint evolution of culture and political institutions converging to one of two distinct stationary states: a religious and a secular regime. We then map qualitatively parameters and initial conditions characterizing the West and …

A Simple Measure Of Economic Complexity, Sabiou M. Inoua

ESI Working Papers

Contrary to conventional economic growth theory, which reduces a country’s output to one aggregate variable (GDP), product diversity is central to economic development, as recent, “economic complexity”, research suggests. A country’s product diversity reflects its diversity of knowhow or “capabilities”. Researchers proposed the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and the country Fitness index to estimate a country’s number of capabilities from international export data; these measures predict economic growth better than conventional variables such as human capital. This paper offers a simpler measure of a country’s knowhow, Log Product Diversity (or LPD, the logarithm of a country’s number of products), which …

The Art Of Concession In General Lotto Games, Rahul Chandan, Keith Paarporn, Dan Kovenock, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Jason R. Marden

ESI Working Papers

Success in adversarial environments often requires investment into additional resources in order to improve one’s competitive position. But, can intentionally decreasing one’s own competitiveness ever provide strategic benefits in such settings? In this paper, we focus on characterizing the role of “concessions” as a component of strategic decision making. Specifically, we investigate whether a player can gain an advantage by either conceding budgetary resources or conceding valuable prizes to an opponent. While one might na¨ıvely assume that the player cannot, our work demonstrates that – perhaps surprisingly – concessions do offer strategic benefits when made correctly. In the context of …

Economics Of Covid-19 Reading List, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

Reading list for The Economics of COVID-19, taught in Fall 2020

Economics Of Covid-19 Reading List, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

Reading list for The Economics of COVID-19, taught in Fall 2020

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 1 Macroeconomics, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This is the first project from The Economics of COVID-19, taught in fall 2020. It focuses on macroeconomics.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 1 Macroeconomics, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This is the first project from The Economics of COVID-19, taught in fall 2020. It focuses on macroeconomics.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 2 Policy, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 2 Policy, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 3 Interview And Industry Analysis, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the third project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020. The project involves an interview and industry analysis.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 3 Interview And Industry Analysis, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the third project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020. The project involves an interview and industry analysis.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 1 Macroeconomic Data, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the first in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 2 Recession Dating, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 2 Recession Dating, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 2 Recession Dating, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 4 Cares Act Preview, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the fourth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 4 Cares Act Preview, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the fourth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 4 Cares Act Preview, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the fourth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.