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Italian Crime: How Does Crime Influence Italian Unemployment?
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between crime and unemployment in Italy. I set out to do so using data on crime, unemployment, and a variety of control variables retrieved from Italy’s Istituto ...
Is the Internet Correlated with Polarization? A Study of the Relationship between Internet Usage and Polarization
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The internet as a communication medium benefits internet users by providing experiences difficult or impossible to encounter in real life. Nonetheless, it can also limit individual exposure to homogeneous political viewpoints ...
The Cost of Privacy: Data Privacy Regulation in the European Union and Its Early Effects on E-Commerce
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In this paper, I explored the effect of data privacy regulation on e-commerce in the European Union (EU). More specifically, I looked at the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), rolled out in 2018, which grants rights ...
Sources of Resourcefulness: Evidence that the Culture of Poverty Is a Productive Adaptation to Economic Uncertainty
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Low-income communities in industrialized societies share common characteristics such as unmarried cohabitation and female-headed households. The unresolved question about these unstable family structures is whether they ...
Guns, Butter and Tweets: The Effectiveness of Modern Russian Statecraft
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Over the last decade, the Western world mobilized to counter the Russian Federation, which is seen as a revanchist security threat. However, little holistic analysis on the effectiveness of Russian foreign policy actually ...
An Evaluation of the Impact of Argentina’a Asignacion Universal Por Hijo on the Labor Supply and Schooling of Adults
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study will evaluate the impact of the Argentinian conditional cash transfer Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) on employment, labor supply, and educational attainment of adults. AUH was introduced in 2009 for below ...
The Role of Inter-Caste Marriage and Women’s Agency in Spousal Choice on Post-Marital Choices of Fertility Decisions and Educational Outcomes of Children
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In India, the caste system dominates marital choice. Couples who marry outside of their caste, therefore, buck a powerful cultural taboo. This thesis investigates the effect of agency of women in spouse selection for ...
The Effect of Bribery on Firm Innovation in Latin America
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This paper uses firm-level data from the 2010 World Bank Enterprise Surveys to measure the impact of corruption on firm innovation in Latin American economies. Specifically, the paper studies the effects of bribery on the ...
Essays on the Political Economy and Economic Impact of Fiscal Policies
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Economists get the opportunity and the responsibility of helping to design public policies. This implies that not only the big picture is necessary but also the details that will make those policies to actually work. This ...
Political Risk and the Cryptocurrency Market: An Application on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
(Georgetown University, 2022)
How does the cryptocurrency market react to unexpected global events? In this paper, we analyze the cryptocurrency market response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. The surprise timing and magnitude ...