This study collects the informal economy estimates for population and income of the frontrunner in the field, the non-profit Social Compact, for five cities: Cleveland, New York (Harlem), Houston, Oakland, Santa Ana, and ...

This study is aimed at gaining an accurate understanding of the characteristic attitudes and problems of young people in the United States with special focus on two activities, voting and volunteering. Currently, there is ...

Existing research shows that two factors stand out as the best predictors of people's stated intention to take action against climate change: accurate understanding of the scientific processes by which the Earth warms, and ...

This study uses difference-in-difference econometric techniques to examine whether beneficiaries in one of the state of Florida's State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) have a higher probability of experiencing ...

Improving education quality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a topic of prime importance for promoting regional economic development and curbing the rising tide of extremism. While regional governments currently ...

The aim of the present study is to pinpoint the factors that motivate retirees to leave the workforce and see how those variables affect the ages at which people choose to retire. It is hypothesized that workers retire at ...

Since Congress passed the Education of All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, federal government policy regarding the education of children with disabilities is that they should be provided a "free appropriate public ...

This study investigates the mental health effects of transitory economic fluctuations. I estimate a reduced form equation for mental health production using OLS, fixed effects, and random effects models with the individual ...

Noncompliance has a negative influence on both tax equity and tax efficiency. In analyzing tax compliance, it is important to study not only measures such as audits and penalties which address noncompliance directly, but ...

This thesis presents an empirical assessment of specifically, the effects of people's income and education on their identification as either Democrats or Republicans. The hypothesis is that, political choices based on an ...