Prior studies demonstrate the existence of a wage penalty for mothers versus women who never have children. This study uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate whether women who become ...

Reducing CO2 emissions and poverty are two of the greatest challenges in Asia. Previous studies focus on how income levels affect CO2 emissions, which follow an inverted U-shape curve known as "Environmental Kuznets Curve". ...

Demographic composition is changing rapidly throughout the world. While ageing population is a global phenomenon, the speed of the change is much faster in developed countries than developing countries, which affects the ...

This paper examines the effect of modernization efforts available to the States on participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The 2002 and 2008 Farm Bills outlined and enacted several measures ...

Through the processes of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, once overlooked deposits of natural gas in shale formations have become economically viable to extract. In the past decade, energy companies have rushed ...

In this thesis I assess whether the oil dependence of a nation, measured as the percentage of that nation's exports derived from fuel sales, negatively affects a nation's level of democracy as proposed previously in the ...

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This paper analyzes the employment effects of minimum wage increases at the federal level between 2007 and 2009 among U.S. teenage workers (ages 16-19). Using the pooled cross-sectional data from the Current Population ...

Between 2006 and 2009, biofortified Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP), rich in Vitamin A, was used in the Reaching End Users (REU) nutrition intervention in Zambezia Province, Mozambique, where there are high levels of ...

Since the financial crisis and the subsequent tightening of development assistance, foreign direct investment, and philanthropic donations, Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have increasingly begun to push for financial ...