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Mixed-Income Public Housing and Neighborhood Change: An Analysis of the Department of Housing and Urban Development HOPE VI Program and Economic Spillover Effects
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Mixed-income public housing was heralded as a potential solution to the problems of previous housing approaches. Between 1992 and 2010, the United States federal government attempted to provide better living conditions and ...
Impact of Campaign Expenditures and Contributions on Voter Turnout during the 2012 U.S. Congressional Elections
(Georgetown University, 2021)
United States political campaigns use a variety of methods to drive voters to the polls, and many require a fiscal expenditure to operate. Past studies have attempted to establish a link between increasing campaign ...
The Effect of Demographic Composition on Education Spending: Generational Competition and the Concept of the Selfish Elderly Revisited
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The world countries are increasingly becoming “gray” societies in which the share of elderly in the population is bigger than the rest. This is argued to has adverse implications on education spending due to generational ...
The Racial Sentencing Disparity in Minor Sex Trafficking Cases
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Research on human trafficking often focuses on aggregate outcomes rather than on individuals, and among the few analyses conducted at the individual level, most focus on victims rather than on defendants. This study seeks ...
Common Cents: An Analysis of Financial Literacy and Socioeconomic Mobility in the United States
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Many experts in the field of consumer finance highlight the scarcity of financial literacy in the United States. Compared to other developed countries, the U.S. population lacks rudimentary financial skills that would ...
The Relationship Between Sex Education and Sexual Violence Victimization Among American Adolescent Females
(Georgetown University, 2021)
American women are at high risk of experiencing sexual violence during their teenage years.However, the majority of victims have limited knowledge and awareness of sexual violence. Previous papers suggest that participation ...
Gentrification and Displacement in New York City, Revisited
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Gentrification has become commonplace in major American cities in the early 21st century. Many scholars worry that increased housing market pressures leads to displacement of low-income residents. Displacement is associated ...
Assessing Local Impact on Mental Health from Mental Healthcare Facilities
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Despite improving economic factors from the year 2014 to 2017 and significant increases in the numbers of mental healthcare facilities across the country, nationwide mental health worsened during that same time period. ...
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Self-Employment
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This paper analyzes the relationship between the generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, which includes the portion of previous wages covered by unemployment insurance (Replacement Rate) as well as the duration ...
Utilizing Mortality Indicators as a Measure of Antibiotic Resistance and Health Systems Before and After Medicaid Expansion
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The overuse of antibiotics has adverse consequences at the individual and population levels. Antibiotic prescribing is one subset of physician diagnostic and prescribing behavior; prescriptive and treatment behaviors have ...