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Title: “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
Author: Austin, Lauren
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Public health, Government policy
Description: This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...

Title: Why Waste? Local Factors And Recycling Outcomes: A Case Study Of North Carolina Counties
Author: Fernandes, Titiksha
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Environmental management, Public administration
Description: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that in 2015 only 67.8million tons or about 26% of the total waste generated was recycled, while the waste generated continued to rise. It is clear from the numbers above that the success of ...

Title: Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
Author: Duscha, Melissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Public administration
Description: This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost savings. This is contrary to widely accepted business practices and market theo...

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 ...

Title: Tradeoffs in the use of value-added estimates of teacher effectiveness by school districts
Author: Baxter, Andrew
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state
Description: A new capacity to track the inputs and outcomes of individual students' education production function has spurred a growing number of school districts to attempt to measure the productivity of their teachers in terms of student outcomes. The use o...

Title: Three essays on economic growth and environmental quality in China
Author: Yang, Hualiu
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public administration
Description: This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the relationship between economic development and environmental quality in China. The first essay investigates how the distribution of gross domestic product (GDP) between the g...

Title: Three Essays on Infant and Young Child Feeding and Child Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Epidemiology and Policy Analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public health, Nutrition
Description: Exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life and complementary breastfeeding up to 24 months is encouraged to ensure optimal infant and young child nutrition and health. The WHO and UNICEF emphasize these optimal Infant and Young Child ...

Title: The development of Chinese overseas joint venture universities and their role in Chinese higher education
Author: Mao, Ping
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: This dissertation investigates a newly emerging phenomenon in Chinese higher education in which a Chinese university partners with an overseas university to open a new university campus in China which began in 2004. This form of university was est...

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: The Effect of Child Access Prevention Laws on Unintentional Shootings Perpetrated by Children
Author: Nussbaum, Sofia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: Holding gun owners responsible when a child accesses a firearm is one of the reasons Child Access Prevention Laws emerged. Previous studies have focused on fatal shootings in which the victim is a child without identifying the age of the perpetrat...

Title: The Community College: Access to Opportunity or Barrier to Success
Author: Grubbs, Samuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social structure, Government policy, Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students’ aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involve...

Title: The Budding Ripple Effect featuring Foreign Aid and Human Trafficking
Author: Hua, Adrienne
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: Foreign aid is one of the most powerful tools at a single state’s disposal. Economically, it can provide much needed support to the poorest of countries or those facing catastrophic conditions. Politically, it can strengthen the current government...

Title: The Appalachian Regional Commission's Use of Tourism as an Economic Development Tool in Eastern Kentucky: 1965 - Present
Author: Matthews, Taylor
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, History
Description: A federal agency that was established during the War on Poverty, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to help develop the Appalachian region through economic development initiatives and improve residents’ quality of life. Critics have c...

Title: TONYA E. FARROW-CHESTNUT. Defining Multimorbidity Space: Structural characteristics, spatial variation of inpatient multimorbidity networks (IMN), and coronary heart disease.
Author: Farrow-Chestnut, Tonya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Government policy
Description: Adults in the United States suffer from two or more chronic conditions at the same time (i.e. multimorbidity). Multiple chronic illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, dramatically shorten life expectancy and present the i...

Title: THE TITLE WAIVE: A POLICY AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE 50 STATES’ ESEA WAIVERS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FEDERALISM AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW MAKING IN EDUCATION POLICY
Author: Trull, Sheena
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Law
Description: The aim of this dissertation is to provide a critical analysis of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Flexibility Waivers administered by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan since 2012. As a function of federalism, local school p...

Title: THE RETENTION OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS IN STEM: AN EXTENSION OF TINTO’S LONGITUDINAL MODEL
Author: Uche, Ada
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: In the current technologically advanced global economy, the role of human capital and education cannot be over-emphasized. Since almost all great inventions in the world have a scientific or technological foundation, having a skilled workforce is ...

Title: THE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE: A THREE-ARTICLE STUDY ON THE DECISION TO JOIN AND THE IMPACTS OF A CAP AND TRADE MARKET
Author: Jones, Brian
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Environmental economics
Description: This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary view of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon dioxide cap and trade market. Specifically, I analyze both the factors contributing to state participation within the Initiative and the mult...

Title: THE POLITICS IN SATISFACTION: CITIZEN EVALUATIONS OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE IN AFRICA
Author: Inyanji, Salma
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: Citizen assessment of government performance remains a contentious issue among public management researchers. Some contend that citizen surveys are inevitably inadequate for gathering information. Others question citizens’ reliability as consisten...

Title: THE IMPACT OF THE 287(G) PROGRAM ON PROCESSES OF HISPANIC INTEGRATION AND ENGAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Mathema, Silva
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: This research explores the impacts of a federal-local partnership called the 287(g) program on the processes of integration of Hispanics in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina. Federal 287(g) allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to p...

Title: THE IMPACT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE USE ON THE PARTICIPATION LEVELS AND LIVING ARRANGEMENT DECISIONS OF OLDER ADULTS
Author: Walsh, Judith
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Gerontology
Description: Using a nationally representative sample of older adults, this dissertation examines the use of assistive technology devices (ATDs) designed to aid with mobility and sensory functioning and to improve one's capacity to perform activities of daily ...