The Chinese government has made recent efforts to expand health insurance to rural areas that have been primarily dependent upon private health care providers. Because private providers do not accept insurance, the insurance ...

Tobacco is the single leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and the majority of adults who smoke first tried cigarettes before they were 18 years old. Identifying the factors that encourage children and ...

Given the soaring cost of mounting a presidential run, public campaign financing for elections is a policy issue overdue for reform. The financial advantage held by major party candidates in the 2008 election effectively ...

Food aid is accused of causing labor disincentives, yet little empirical evidence tests this theory. In this paper, I use a panel survey from Bangladesh after the 1998 flood to investigate whether in-kind food aid created ...

The following work contributes to previous research done on youth smoking in an effort to get at who, among our children, is smoking cigarettes. Predicated on the theory that public policy programs can be more effective ...

This study investigates the effects of foreign competition on the level of capacity utilization of a firm using firm-level data of twelve countries.. Until recently much of the work on competition and trade had focused on ...

This thesis poses two central questions about the changing nature of work in an increasingly Internet dominated professional landscape. The first question is whether the Internet impacts the amount of work that employees ...

Recent analyses of economic well-being by race have shifted their focus from income inequality to the wealth gap. Dr. Melvin L. Oliver and Dr. Thomas M. Shapiro's pioneering work in Black Wealth/White Wealth: New Perspective ...

In 2005 11% of households in the United States reported being food insecure at some point during the year. Research into food security over the last several years has expanded to look at personal, social, and health ...

This paper explores the effects on employment outcomes of unearned income (i.e., remittances and social transfer payments) in Bulgaria. Since the late 1980's, Bulgaria has been transitioning from a socialist, command style ...