Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the [...]

The prevalence of chronic disease and obesity is a public health problem in the United States. Nearly 37% of adults are obese. Federal agencies and foundations such has t[...]

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 d[...]

This dissertation aims to study the causal relationship between the underlying processes of agglomeration economies and the formation of certain spatial structures at bot[...]

From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected lef[...]

Spatial income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income across communities. This study broadens the concept to include residential segregation, central cit[...]

Financial stress has received meager attention in organizational science research. So far, financial stress research uses inconsistent or nonexistent definitions, and an [...]

In this dissertation, I take an interdisciplinary approach to improve the budget allocation process for economic mobility policy by leveraging multi-objective optimizatio[...]

This dissertation examines the relationship between corporate expansions and entrepreneurial startup activity and failures, the number of jobs created, wages paid, and le[...]

Low-income individuals encounter significant personal, social, economic, and political obstacles to adequate health care. Transportation challenges, communication barrier[...]