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Effects of the Recovery Act SNAP Benefit Increase on Participation Among Upper Income Households With Earnings
(Georgetown University, 2011)
There are a variety of factors that may explain the low participation of working families in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Explanations include the temporary nature of those families' poverty status; ...
Aid and the African Dilemma: The Effect of Foreign Aid on Human Development in Africa
(Georgetown University, 2011)
This paper contributes to the long line of aid effectiveness literature by looking at the impact of aid on human development in Africa. Using time series data on 34 African countries from 1960-2005 and infant mortality ...
The Effect of High-speed Internet Access on the Gender Wage Gap
(Georgetown University, 2013)
High-speed Internet access is becoming more common and less expensive, but an expanding digital divide has potentially serious implications for existing economic inequalities, such as the wage ratio between men and women. ...
Investigating U.S. Household Consumer Banking Behaviors in the Twenty-First Century: The Relationship Between Unbanked Consumers and the U.S. Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The height of the recent U.S. financial crisis during 2007-2008 is often remembered for its unprecedented government bailouts, the collapse of large financial institutions, and a dramatic fall in stock prices around the ...
Will Work For Health Insurance?: The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Expansion on the Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply of Young Adults with Disabilities
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Among the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 that were implemented earliest was an expansion in the definition of dependents on private family health insurance plans. This provision has ...
The Relationship between Corruption and Income Inequality: A Cross-national Study
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality levels and corruption levels. The hypothesis of the paper is that income inequality levels are positively correlated with corruption levels, and is based upon ...
DOES JOINING THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE HAVE AN IMPACT ON EXTRACTIVE AND NON-EXTRACTIVE FDI INFLOWS?
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) invites resource-rich countries to voluntarily publish the payments they receive from corporations and open their books to the scrutiny of certified auditors. In ...
The Effect of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on a Domestic Economy-The Case of Japan-
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This paper investigates the relationship between domestic employment and the real wage, added value production index, foreign sales by the companies, the investing country's real gross domestic product, the corporation's ...
THE IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE ON HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES FOR HEALTH AND EDUCATION:EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL IMPLEMENTED IN HYDERABAD, INDIA
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Since the late 1970s, microfinance has been popular in the developing world. This paper studies whether the effect of microfinance on household expenditures for education and health varies by business propensity (i.e., the ...
Enfoque Territorial y Política Pública
(Georgetown University, 2011)
This paper analyzes the premises of the Territorial Approach for Rural Development -ETDR- as framework for public policies design in Latin America, by examines its application in the Rural Development Plan of the Province ...