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Economic Sanctions and Autocratic Repression
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Economic sanctions have become a popular tool in influencing another countries actions in the last half century. While the effectiveness of sanctions is hotly debated, they still remain a common foreign policy measure. As ...
The Relationship Between Childhood TANF Cash Assistance Receipt and Young Adult Expectations
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This paper explores the relationship between childhood TANF cash assistance receipt and young adult expectations about success and future labor market outcomes. Two self-reported expectations measures are used to examine ...
The Effects of Foreign Residents on Crime Rates and Labor Market Outcomes in Japan
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Using 2000, 2005 and 2010 Japanese prefecture-level data, I estimate the effects of the inflow of foreign residents in a prefecture on total crime rates, violent crime rates, and property crime rates in that prefecture. I ...
The relationship between asset holdings and material hardship following economic shocks in a household
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Beginning in the 1990s, many scholars have theorized the possible positive effects of holding assets. One hypothesized benefit is that holding assets can reduce the likelihood of experiencing material hardships, such as ...
Ambassador Doraemon: Japan's Pop Culture Diplomacy in China and South Korea
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Despite a growing literature on Japanese soft power and public diplomacy, little research quantifies its effects or orients it in policy discussions. This paper investigates the relationship of consumption of Japanese ...
Legitimacy and Law Enforcement: The Counterinsurgency Against Gang Crime in the United States
(Georgetown University, 2012)
City gangs within the United States have evolved in the past several decades to become sophisticated organizations with clear objectives beyond random crimes and territorial protection. Upon returning from a couple of tours ...
An Assessment of the Social and Economics Determinants of Provincial Voting Behavior in Turkey
(Georgetown University, 2012)
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF PROVINCIAL VOTING BEHAVIOR IN TURKEY
Do Political Contributions Influence Public Policy? The Case of Private Prisons
(Georgetown University, 2012)
A major public policy issue faced by all States recently has been the decision whether to privatize prisons. However, the dramatic increase in the number of private prisons in the United States since the early 2000s has ...
Corruption and Its Impact on Development: A Cross-National Study
(Georgetown University, 2012)
While there is an acknowledged relationship between corruption and development, this paper seeks to better understand corruption's effect on development by using OLS and fixed effects regressions to quantitatively measure ...
Food Access and Individual Behavior: How the Local Food Environment Influences Time Spent on Meal Preparation
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Local policies to address food deserts, areas with limited access to healthy food choices, are often premised on the idea that the local food environment affects individual behavior. This study examines the strength of ...