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Title: CONSEQUENCES ON LABOR MARKET AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ACROSS RACES AND GENDERS FROM GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL DURING A RECESSION
Author: Baddouh, Priscila
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This study investigates the effects of graduating high school during a recession on real wages, educational attainment, and probability of being in five professional occupation fields, most of them high wage occupation fields. I use data from the ...

Title: DEFLATEGATE: THE EFFECT OF THE 2006 RULE CHANGE REGARDING FOOTBALL PREPARATION ON RELEVANT GAME STATISTICS
Author: Satterwhite, William
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This study investigates the impact of 2006 NFL rule change on the 2015 DeflateGate controversy. This analysis contributes to the discussions surrounding Tom Brady, the Patriots and their role in game day football preparation. This study is unique ...

Title: Experimental and Computational Study of Performance of Highway Embankments
Author: Hassani, Mehrdad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Highway embankments require careful selection of the borrow material and construction practices. Most highway agencies in North America specify the soil selection criteria based on gradation or Atterberg limits. Furthermore, current construction p...

Title: Income Share Agreements and Student Preferences
Author: Vora, Nirav
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education--Finance
Description: Income share agreements are increasingly discussed as an alternative to student loans.This paper seeks to measure the level of interest among students for various incomeshare agreement offers, and to explore the possibility of adverse selection. U...

Title: Income volatility and county size: a study of North Carolina county population size and per capita personal income volatility
Author: Carman, Allison
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This investigates the relationship between North Carolina counties and patterns in per capita personal income volatility over various samples ranging from 1969 to 2014. The overarching hypothesis is that people in smaller counties experience incre...

Title: Long Term Determinants of Income: Early Career Choices and Their Effect on Future Income
Author: Dickerson, Brian
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The purpose of this thesis was to examine how early career decisions by young adults can affect their long term career outcomes, specifically income twenty years in the future. Previous research dedicated to this area looked at short-term effects....

Title: Nutrition and health among low-income children: Estimating the association with SNAP using a quasi-experimental approach
Author: Hudak, Katelin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Government policy, Economics
Description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s largest federal food assistance program. The goal of the program is to help low-income families afford a healthy diet. However, several studies have found that participation in S...

Title: Social Media Use in Public Health and Policy Study
Author: Gao, Jingjing
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public health
Description: The Internet plays a significant role in health information searching, sharing, and emotional support. Chapter 1 explores the complementary and substitutive value of online health information from diseases, especially chronic diseases, health insu...

Title: THE EFFECT OF SPORTING EVENTS ON FIRM-LEVEL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN UPTOWN CHARLOTTE
Author: Fore, Benjamin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Sports administration
Description: This study investigates the impact of sporting events in Charlotte, North Carolina on local economic activity. A formal analysis of the effect these events have on local markets is useful in supporting or refuting the assumption of economic benefi...

Title: Tanking in the National Hockey League
Author: Hayden, Shelley
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sports administration
Description: Tanking, the incentive for a sports team to lose game(s) at the end of the regular season to secure a favorable draft position, is a researched problem in multiple major sports leagues. Attempts to diminish the incentive to tank have been implemen...

Title: The Influence of Reference Group Contributions on Individual Charitable Giving
Author: Skeate, Keegan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The act of giving to charity seems to arise from interpersonal comparisons of relative well-being. The purpose of this study is to test if reference group comparisons of charitable contributions influence the propensity to give to charity. Apart f...

Title: The determinants of household violence
Author: Wienke, Jennifer
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: Family violence is a pervasive social issue, which warrants attention from policy makers. Theories such as nested ecological theory and general strain theory suggest that family violence increases during times of economic hardship. Even so, histor...

Title: VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: DO PEOPLE CHOOSE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATIONS BASED ON NATURALLY OCCURRING ADVANTAGES OR MAN-MADE ADVANTAGES OF LOCATIONS?
Author: Canales, Kristine Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Government policy, Economics
Description: Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the ...