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How Have Socioeconomic Inequities in Health Care Utilization Changed Over Time? A Thirty-Year Analysis of the United States of America
(Georgetown University, 2014)
In 2008, the World Health Organization issued a report calling for urgent action on behalf of governments around the world to address differences in health within and between countries, observing that "social injustice is ...
The Relationship Between Academic Achievement and Teen Childbearing
(Georgetown University, 2014)
In this paper, I investigate the relationship between academic achievement during the pre-teen years and the subsequent likelihood of experiencing a teen, non-marital birth among females in the Panel Study of Income ...
Domestic Airline Competition, Legacy Carrier Consolidation and the Rise of the Low-Cost Carrier
(Georgetown University, 2017)
In the past eight years, the airline market in the United States has gone through a string of bankruptcies, some brought on by the severe economic recession in 2008 and 2009. These financial difficulties provided the impetus ...
Sequestration: Impact on Small Business Contracting with the Department of Defense
(Georgetown University, 2017)
It is an explicit policy goal of the United States (U.S.) to promote small business, including in contracting with the federal government. The majority of federal contract dollars are awarded by the Department of Defense ...
Clustering Around the Wage Floor: the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage on Employment In Puerto Rico
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Despite the wealth of literature on the effects of the minimum wage on employment in the contiguous U.S., there is a dearth of comparable studies for the island of Puerto Rico. This paper exploits U.S. Census data for the ...
WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF U.S.-LED SANCTIONS ON A TARGET NATION'S FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE?
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study seeks to assess the relationship between United States-led sanctions and the foreign exchange rate (vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar) of targeted nations. Recent research has examined various impacts that sanctions ...
INFLUENCE OF REMITTANCES ON POVERTY IN DEVELOPING NATIONS
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Remittances are believed to be a non-cyclical, relatively steady form of income transfer to households. The rate of growth of formal remittances in dollars has slowed since 2008, and in fact saw a small decrease in 2009. ...
DOES MANAGED CARE REDUCE PREVENTABLE HOSPITALIZATIONS IN THE MEDICARE POPULATION? THE IMPACT OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE ON AMBULATORY CARE SENSITIVE HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS AND USE OF PREVENTIVE SERVICES
(Georgetown University, 2013)
One controversial option to control growth in the rate of federal spending on health care is to transform Medicare into a "voucher" program for beneficiaries to purchase health insurance from managed care plans in the ...
Distress During Unemployment: The Role of Unemployment Insurance
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Models of utility maximization posit that individuals with more income are able to purchase goods and services so as to attain higher levels of utility. Existing literature has conceptualized measures of psychological ...
An Empirical Study to Assess the Effectiveness of U.S. Fiscal Policy
(Georgetown University, 2013)
As did many advanced economies, the U.S. economy experienced severe economic problems in 2008 and 2009, and the effects continue. In response to the global financial crisis, the U.S. government relied on a large fiscal ...