"Do housing voucher recipients live in better neighborhoods?" Using American Housing Survey data from 2007, I employ a propensity score matching technique to determine the effect of receiving housing vouchers on perception ...

I use ordinary least squares regression with year and region of birth fixed effects to estimate the relationship between educational attainment and morality. Morality is broken into six categories. I find statistically ...

Policymakers routinely argue that food security undergirds political stability within a country. Indeed, this linkage motivates much of US foreign food assistance. However, the broader literature does not substantiate ...

Bangladesh is a low lying country that experienced 62 water related natural disasters from 2000-09. This makes the country susceptible to disease outbreaks like diarrhea, hepatitis A and E and Leptospirosis. Prior literature ...

In an attempt to bring mathematical certainty to uncertain situations, some have tried developing "election forensics" tools as a way of evaluating the quality of an election. Most election forensics tools involve applying ...

Over the past decade, the federal government has launched several initiatives aimed at increasing the rate of adoption of Health Information Technology with the goal of improving the quality of care while reducing the cost ...

This paper examines the inter-household gender bias in nutritional outcomes for children in India. Previous studies look at similar relationships and find there to be a multitude of cultural and social factors that influence ...

This paper examines the relationship of maternal HIV on nutritional outcomes for dependent children, aged 0-60 months, in Kenya. While current literature has begun to examine the effect of parent HIV status on educational ...

Voter identification laws have become a highly contentious topic in American politics as society debates how to balance safeguarding the integrity of our elections with citizen participation. This thesis evaluates the ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the dominating country level influences on gender inequality in Europe. Using the gender wage gap as a proxy for gender inequality, this study tests the hypothesis of whether a ...