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  How Influence From Happiness Determinants Differ Across Three Migration Identities 

  Fan, Tianyi (Georgetown University, 2018)

  Urbanization and migration have been a very important issue in many developing countries in the past decade. While bolstering economic development, urbanization and migration have also led to many urban issues such as ...
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  Does Neighborhood Crime Lessen the Effects of the National School Lunch Program in Chicago Public Schools? 

  Siu, Meagan (Georgetown University, 2018)

  A variety of factors influence child development, including family-level and environmental factors. Existing literature indicates that families unable to provide proper nutrition and food security may contribute to children ...
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  What's the Matter with "What's the Matter with Connecticut?" 

  Bouyamourn, Adam Zaid Austin (Georgetown University, 2018)

  Gelman et al. (2007) argue that the marginal effect of income on voting Republican decreases in richer states -- that "income matters more in Red America than in Blue America''. I model individual-level and state-level ...
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  Do Project Evaluations Correlate with the Performance of Programs over Time? An Analysis of World Bank Health and Education Projects, 2000-2010 

  Dathan, Anupama Uma (Georgetown University, 2018)

  Despite a rise in international development project evaluations, there is little evidence that their findings influence the design of later projects. Methods: I use data from 445 World Bank health and education projects ...
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  The Psychological Weight of Uncertainty: An Econometric Analysis of the Relationship Between Uninsurance and Depression 

  Schurman, Hanna Paige (Georgetown University, 2018)

  After centuries of neglect, the causes and effects of mental illness have begun being scientifically studied and treated in recent decades. While corollary links exist between mental health and demographic factors like ...

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