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Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Result in Lower Carbon Emissions? An Econometric Assessment of State-Level Climate Policy
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Renewable portfolio standards are among the most popular state-level policies designed to decrease reliance on fossil fuels and increase renewable energy use. These standards require that a certain share of a state’s ...
Tiger Does Not Harm Its Cubs: The Differential Impact of Parental Warmth and Closeness on Child Development in Asian American Versus European American Families
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Asian parenting is stereotyped to be harsh and authoritarian and characterized by a low level of parental warmth and closeness, compared to Western European parenting. Such a narrative of Asian parenting is ethnocentric ...
An Institutional Reform or a Campaign Style Enforcement? The Central Inspection Teams in Xi Jingping’s Era
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The Chinese central inspection teams (CITs) have been established as permanent institutions which accounted for monitoring the misbehaviors of provincial party members since 2003. After Xi Jingping took office in 2013, ...
The Impact of Access to the Internet on Citizen Involvement in Public Policy Decisions
(Georgetown University, 2021)
In its first few decades, the internet has provided a communication medium to connect businesses, governments, and individuals with each other in new ways and brought about a revolution in mass media. Governments, international ...
The Individual and Joint Effects of State-Level Landlord-Tenant Policy on Mobility among Renters
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Landlord-tenant laws, which regulate the rights, duties, and responsibilities of landlords and their tenants, are primarily enacted by state governments. Resultantly, there is significant variation in the landlord-tenant ...
The Impact of Chinese Foreign Aid on the Local Digitalization Development of Recipient Countries
(Georgetown University, 2022)
In the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese investment and entities are increasingly involved in the construction of digitalization projects in overseas developing countries. As for the impact of Chinese ...
Propuesta de un marco de política pública para la implementación en Argentina del Convenio 190 de la Oit Sobre La Violencia Y El Acoso En El Mundo Del Trabajo
(Georgetown University, 2022)
After an intense dialogue at the international level, in June 2019 and within the framework of the International Labor Organization (ILO), Convention 190 (C190) and Recommendation 206 (R206) on Violence and Harassment were ...
Políticas públicas que permitan la corresponsabilidad en el mercado laboral formal en Ciudad y Provincia de Buenos Aires, 2018-2020.
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The main interest of this paper is to analyze what are the public policies that favor female participation in the formal labor market in a more equitable manner in terms of gender, favoring co-responsibility of care tasks ...
A State Comparison to Understand Medicaid Delivery System Effects on Access and Use of Preventative Services
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Since the mid-1980s, states have employed managed care organizations (MCOs) as a delivery system to coordinate the receipt of healthcare services for Medicaid beneficiaries. Though privatizing the delivery of Medicaid ...
Balancing Carbon Emissions with Economic Development: Carbon Productivity In China
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Carbon productivity measures the Gross Domestic Product generated per unit of carbon dioxide emission to balance the carbon emissions with economic growth. Improving carbon productivity is one of the coping strategies to ...