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GOVERNANCE RETURNS TO EDUCATION: DO EXPECTED YEARS OF SCHOOLING PREDICT QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE?
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This paper examines the relationship between expected years of schooling and governance in a sample of 157 countries. Previous studies have looked at similar relationships, specifically between education and democracy, ...
Using Medicaid Block Grants to Eliminate Moral Hazard
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This paper seeks to determine whether states experience moral hazard in Medicaid spending due to the federal matching subsidies, which make it so states only pay a percentage of the full cost of Medicaid. Econometric ...
Entrepreneurship and Tax Policy
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This paper analyzes the impacts of tax changes on entrepreneurial activity. The analysis is focused on the U.S. personal income and capital gains tax reforms of 2001 and 2003 respectively. For this study a panel data set ...
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Industry Switching Decisions and Reemployment Earnings of Displaced Workers
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This thesis examines whether unemployment insurance (UI) benefits improve the quality of job matches for displaced workers who find new employment. Using individual-level data from the 2008 and 2010 Displaced Worker ...
TERRORISM IN YEMEN: CHALLENGES AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY
(Georgetown University, 2013)
TERRORISM IN YEMEN: CHALLENGES AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY
THE BLACK MARKET FOR ILLICIT DRUGS: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF U.S. FOREIGN AID ON ILLICIT DRUG SEIZURE RATES AROUND THE GLOBE
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The illegal drug market is estimated to be a multi-billion dollar industry that has continued to thrive despite countless government efforts to eliminate it. The United States has poured billions of dollars into supply-side ...
THE IMPACT OF CHARTER SCHOOL ENROLLMENT ON CHILDREN'S SOCIO-EMOTIONAL OUTCOMES
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Now serving nearly 2 million children, charter schools are an oft cited solution to America's achievement gap. While ample research has attempted to disentangle the impacts of charter school enrollment on academic achievement, ...
The Effect of Macroeconomic Fluctuations on Health: Evidence from 2000-2010
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Recessions are broadly understood to impose negative consequences on the populations who experience them, but recent scholarship shows, counterintuitively, that some measures of health improve as the economy worsens. Using ...
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: DOES TIMING OF POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER MEDIATE THE ASSOCIATION?
(Georgetown University, 2012)
The prevalence of exposure to traumatic events among American children is staggering. It is also well established that violent victimization increases the risk of juvenile delinquency. Nonetheless, the specific pathways ...
Another Immigrant Paradox?: The Effect Of Mother's Nativity On Early Childhood Behavior Problems in the U.S.
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This paper examines the relationship between mother's nativity and behavior problems among first graders in the United States. Data from the fourth wave (spring 2000) of Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten ...