McCourt School of Public Policy: Recent submissions
Now showing items 6-10 of 2010
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The Effect of Marijuana Legalization on Juvenile Delinquency
(Georgetown University, 2023)The recent legalization of medical and recreational marijuana in several states has generated interest in their potential effect on crimes. Using state-level Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center (OPTIC) Vetted Policy ... -
Is the Title I Formula Broken? How Bad Is It? A Study of the Relationship Between School District Federal Title I Dollar Allocations and District Poverty, Race, and Segregation
(Georgetown University, 2023)“Title I” refers to the nation’s largest federal budgetary package to support economically-disadvantaged students. Research around it has been limited, though the consensus across decades suggests that reassessment of its ... -
On Migrant Workers, the Interaction of Their Education and Ethnic Concentration, and Labor Market Outcomes
(Georgetown University, 2023)While immigrants make up an increasing proportion of the U.S. labor force, there is little consensus on how ethnic concentration affects their labor market outcomes, and even less about the effect of the interaction between ... -
The Relationship Between SNAP Participation Levels and Food Insecurity at the County Level
(Georgetown University, 2023)Spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has grown from $24.6 billion in 1995 to $60.4 billion in 2019. Despite this increase in spending, food insecurity (the proportion of the population that lacks ... -
Investigating the Climate-Conflict Nexus in India: A Disaggregated Analysis Across Space and Time
(Georgetown University, 2023)This study analyzes the linkages between climate variations and conflict in India through the application of dynamic spatial autoregressive modeling upon subnational data collected at a highly granular resolution of ...
