Financial literacy is an important body of knowledge and set of skills that consumers need to successfully navigate the 21st century economy. Prior research shows financial literacy bears a significant relationship, along ...

Past research has determined using simple summary statistics that non-American, or “ethnic” restaurants score lower on their food safety inspections, even though they are not inspected significantly more often. Using a ...

Building on previous empirical studies of violence and military aid spending, this paper adds to the growing body of literature by analyzing the recent reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. New and more expansive violence ...

In the past eight years, the airline market in the United States has gone through a string of bankruptcies, some brought on by the severe economic recession in 2008 and 2009. These financial difficulties provided the impetus ...

It is an explicit policy goal of the United States (U.S.) to promote small business, including in contracting with the federal government. The majority of federal contract dollars are awarded by the Department of Defense ...

Despite the wealth of literature on the effects of the minimum wage on employment in the contiguous U.S., there is a dearth of comparable studies for the island of Puerto Rico. This paper exploits U.S. Census data for the ...

To attract policy makers’ attention away from one-sided economic statistics and ambiguous progressive proposals toward exercisable strategies to promote human development, the Human Development Index (HDI) developed by ...

The employment-based (EB) visa process is the primary government-sponsored visa program for companies looking to retain international talent on a permanent basis. This study analyzes wage levels for job applicants being ...

The political rhetoric on immigration in the United States often misrepresents U.S.-Mexico migration trends by focusing on the flow of Mexican immigrants into the United States. The reality is that many migrants return to ...