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This study investigates the effects of environmental regulations on housing markets using a quasi-experiment setting – the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a ca[...]

The goal of this dissertation was to determine if increased use of streaming media services had replaced movie theater jobs within the United States. Using a balanced pan[...]

This paper examines whether compulsory metal detectors affect daily high school attendance and whether these effects differ across school socioeconomic contexts. Using ad[...]

The New York City climate law known as Local Law 97 (LL97), passed under the Climate Mobilization Act of 2019, limits yearly greenhouse gases produced by buildings over 2[...]

The informal economy contributes substantially to the GDP of Sub-Saharan African countries. Building off work done by Nagler and Naudé in 2017, this paper analyzes the re[...]

This research looked at how personalized advertisements affect consumers' willingness to purchase through the moderating influence of privacy consciousness, risk toleranc[...]

This paper examines whether professional football rivalries in the English Premier League (EPL) influence crime rates among residents living near host stadiums. The analy[...]

This paper examines how the growth of private credit affects the transmission of monetary policy through the bank lending channel. Distributed lag regressions are estimat[...]

This thesis examines whether a beauty premium exists in Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) salaries by analyzing the relationship between facial attractivenes[...]

This paper examines whether trade liberalization has led to inclusive growth in three major emerging economies, India, China, and Indonesia over the period 1978-2023. The[...]

This study estimates the effect of the Municipalities Most Affected by the Armed Conflict Policy (ZOMAC) on formal construction investment in Colombia using an unbalanced[...]

This paper examines how Law No. 9351 (2016), a property restriction law in Costa Rica, impacts the physical condition of subsidy recipient properties, in comparison to no[...]

Artificial intelligence(AI) is reshaping labor markets either through replacement or reinstatement effect. This paper examines the relationship between AI exposure and oc[...]

This paper examines how perceived financial hardship shapes adult financial risk tolerance using data from the 2021 FINRA National Financial Capability Study (N = 27,118)[...]

This paper examines the relationship between participation in microcredit programs and child maltreatment in households in Vietnam. Using cross-sectional data from the UN[...]

This thesis examines whether the expansion of AI-related computational infrastructure has contributed to measurable changes in state-level commercial electricity consumpt[...]

This paper examines the relationship between the income to poverty ratio and time constraints on coffee consumption and how that relationship may differ depending on the [...]

The presence of food consumer behaviors among SNAP and non-SNAP participants are investigated to determine if there is a correlation between checking food labels and diet[...]

The "Asian Paradox" is a debated phenomenon in the field of political economics where growth has persisted among certain regions in Asia despite high levels of corruption[...]

This study explores how employment in services, urbanization, household consumption, government consumption, and foreign direct investment (FDI) affect service value adde[...]

This paper investigates the impact of Karnataka’s 2013 amendment to agricultural cooperative governance on the state’s agricultural productivity. Using a difference-in-di[...]

This paper works to find the extent to which the quality of public transportation plays a role in vehicular accidents on football game days. To investigate this, traffic [...]

This paper investigates the effect of Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) on voter turnout and state-level government spending. It studies Oregon’s implementation of AVR i[...]

Hurricanes are becoming more frequent and intense with climate change. In this study, I analyze whether hurricanes over the last twenty years impacted the population grow[...]

This study investigates how the expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) impacts on expenditures and savings within the Older American Act (OAA) program. Using panel da[...]

This paper investigates the economic and competitive impacts of foreign-born players' salaries in Major League Baseball (MLB). Utilizing a fixed effects Ordinary Least Sq[...]

This paper examines the impact of Serbia and Montenegro’s 2006 independence on human development indicators, focusing on life expectancy, primary school enrolment, urban [...]

This study investigates how signing a new contract impacts National Hockey League (NHL) player performance in the season immediately following the agreement. Drawing from[...]

This paper examines the impact of higher education choices, such as attending a public college, a private non-profit college, or a private for-profit college, on the futu[...]

This paper uses data from NFL games throughout the 2013-2019 seasons and analyzes the profitability of several correlated parlays and straight bets. Independent variables[...]

Expected Goals are an analytical tool used in soccer which have picked up a lot of value in recent years. They are used to asses teams' quality to create goal scoring opp[...]

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has grown rapidly since its inception in the early 1990s. An important aspect of understanding the explosion of Mixed Martial Art[...]

This paper seeks to 1. evaluate findings from previous literature that demonstrated evidence of social trust having a positive relationship with economic growth in the fo[...]

ABSTRACT This paper investigates player involvement in national team and how it effects their market valuation as it relates to ethnicity. Previous research [...]

This paper studies donations to non-profit organizations in the US and how they reacted to The Great Recession of 2008. I find statistically significant drop-offs in mult[...]

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) ruled that abortion access is no longer constitutionally protected resulting in each state deciding who has access to [...]

The sharp increase in post-pandemic inflation coincided with a profit explosion characterized by a growing share of profit in output. This paper argues that the record pr[...]

This paper focuses on the different effects of COVID-19-driven inflation on U.S. consumer spending on food, durable goods, and nondurable goods. The study used regression[...]

Both options sellers and sportsbooks are price-setters in growing speculative markets. With the increased availability of sports betting and options trading, potential in[...]

Tourism has been shown to impact housing prices and residents’ ability to afford housing in a host community as well as impacting several other aspects of the host commun[...]

Since 2018, trade relations between the United States and China have become increasingly tense, with the United States attempting to restrict the development of Chinese c[...]

This study investigates the impact of remittances received on the highest level of education completed by the household members in Uganda. The results of our multinomial [...]

In this thesis, we primarily study the years of 2017, 2020, and 2023 determining if there is a potential relationship between baggage fee charging airlines, non-baggage f[...]

This paper looks into the relationship between professional soccer player wages and ownership characteristics. Previous research has shown that foreign owners invest more[...]

This research examines the effects of state tax incentives on the market penetration of electric vehicles (EVs), while also delving into other variables such as charging [...]

This paper investigates whether or not there is a differential effect of marriage on the career path of men and women. Using the 2010 US census, I analyze the relationshi[...]

This paper examines the causes behind the flattening of the Japanese Phillips curve by analyzing the unemployment rate measure, and its role in the flattening of the curv[...]

This study will investigate whether people prefer spending their cash on hand for instantaneous benefits, or delay consumption for future returns, and the impact of their[...]

This paper aims to analyze the effectiveness of California's Clean Air regulations. Using historical data on infant birthweights from the NCHS, a Difference in Difference[...]

The construction of green spaces in urban areas has shown to bring value to nearby properties. As this theory has held true for several multi-use trails constructed in ci[...]

To determine the impacts of constructing PV solar panels on high- and low-income areas, this research utilized housing data from New York State since 1996, PV solar panel[...]

The worldwide environmental crisis such as climate change and global warming motivates countries to use renewable energy. Additionally, the crisis provokes the importance[...]

This paper examines the recent conduct of monetary policy in the Philippines and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) interest rate setting behavior. In this paper, I u[...]

The Syrian War has caused a major refugee crisis in the world starting in 2011. From then, almost 5.6 million Syrians have been externally displaced due to the impact of [...]

Literature surrounding the topic of environmental certification programs has consistently shown that green buildings financially outperform non-green buildings. Financial[...]

China’s huge economic growth over the past four decades has been observed by the world and oftentimes acknowledged as an economic miracle. One of the main factors of this[...]

This paper intends to investigate the potential of market manipulation in under regulated markets that does not exist in regulated ones. I do this by looking at the previ[...]

The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the differentials between race and sexual orientations in the distribution of income/salary and the amount or pu[...]

During the Prison Boom period (late 1980s through 2000), the US saw a dramatic increase in the number of prisons across rural America. Increasingly, policy makers came to[...]

Rates of stock buybacks have recently hit an all-time high, and have gained a lot of attention from both the business community and the mainstream media. A polarizing deb[...]

This study examines the effectiveness of the ban on the open carry of firearms in California (implemented in January, 2012). Data was taken from the U.S. Vital Statistics[...]

This paper examines the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth. Following a theoretical model of endogenous growth to analyze this relationship, I u[...]

As of today, only one study (Dickert-Conlin et al., 2011) has analyzed the impact of a universal motorcycle helmet law on the number of donors who died from motor vehicle[...]

This paper examines the possibility of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) implementation in the United States. Theory and past experiments suggest a reduction in work hours, [...]

My paper analyzes the impact that different levels of education and undergraduate degree fields have on earnings. I use Census data from the 2017 American Community Surve[...]

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is one of the most well-known and used economic indicator to measure the strength and size of an economy. However, too often the assumption i[...]

Resource extraction from wild fisheries is and continues to be a behemoth of an industry both in the US and worldwide. Indeed, wars have been fought over such resources, [...]

Energy is an essential input for creating economic output. Increasing energy access, diversifying energy portfolios, and becoming more energy efficient are all believed t[...]

This paper uses a state-level alcohol sales dataset to analyze how marijuana legalization affects alcohol consumption. I employ a difference-in-differences model to inves[...]

This paper studies the determinants of portfolio capital flows to emerging Europe along with the spillover effects of U.S. monetary policy on the region’s portfolio inves[...]

This paper examines the impact of recent consolidation within the North American ski industry on day ticket and season pass prices. It utilizes a unique cross-sectional d[...]

Throughout my research I seek to understand the role projection bias plays within Major League Baseball (MLB). Projection bias stems from the field of behavioral economic[...]

This paper explores a few core cultural economic theories such as Baumol’s Cost Disease and Crowding out/Crowding in effects, and it delves in the why, the how, and the h[...]

This paper analyzes the long-term neighborhood effects on incomes of youths in the United States. The working dataset comes from the National Longitudinal Survey of the Y[...]

This paper uses pregame spread data to attempt to analyze the efficiency of the NFL betting market. I look at hot hand betting, performance during prime-time games, home [...]

This paper utilizes state level education data measuring public schools’ Adequate Yearly Progress to estimate the impact of the federal education policy, No Child Left Be[...]

To estimate the effect of an increase in minimum wages on gender, this paper utilizes a natural experiment opportunity, arising from increases in 21 states of the U.S. an[...]

Historically, foreign assistance has been used to support and advance donor countries own interests upon recipient countries. Foreign assistance primary use is to influen[...]

As global temperatures continue to rise, it is expected that there will be a reduction in natural snowfall in the mountain regions of North America. Many ski area industr[...]

My paper analyzes the role that investor attention plays in the North American cannabis industry by conducting an OLS regression with time fixed effects. I use the North [...]

This paper analyzes International Labor Organization data from 2000-2016 to explore what facets of the welfare state have an effect on the occupational segregation by gen[...]

There is an abundance of existing literature which shows the presence of behavioral biases in professional sports. Researchers have used reference dependent preferences a[...]

This paper investigated the impact of economic valuation of gun control on views, attitudes, and behaviors towards gun control legislation in an experimental setting. The[...]

This research explores the effects of Uber entry on New York City’s traffic. The two major questions I am trying to answer that might be of vital importance to transporta[...]

Anti-Transgender hate crimes have been on the rise in recent years, but the reasons for this are unclear. The main question this thesis works to answer is: How do state-b[...]

This thesis examines the relationship between competitive advantage and stock performance. Using Morningstar’s economic moat rating classifications, this paper contribute[...]

Gun control legislation varies significantly between State’s and results from previous studies show great variation on the effectiveness of gun control. This paper attemp[...]

This paper examines the effects of inflation targeting (IT) on output income per capita growth in emerging economies over the period 1990 - 2014, which includes key globa[...]

This research examines refugee migration originating from Mainland China to North and South countries, like Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Nepal and India. To [...]

Much of the literature on international migration finds a brain drain – the most skilled migrants leave their home country and stay abroad in an economy where they can ma[...]

This paper studies the effect of globalization on educational attainment. Using exports as percentage of GDP and globalization index to measure globalization, I use a ser[...]

This paper assesses the impact of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP) on Eurozone unemployment rates. Using a panel dataset, I const[...]

The impact of climate change is noticeable already affecting different sectors: health, social, economic and agriculture. Although climate change impacts countries differ[...]

This paper investigates the economic impacts that natural disasters cause on countries located in the region of the Ring of Fire. Using information from 1960 to 2016, thi[...]

This paper looks at two measure of the value of Bitcoin (the price and volume traded in the last month of Bitcoin) and sees if investor attention causes any changes in th[...]

This paper seeks to find evidence of the contract year phenomenon in the National Football League. The contract year phenomenon is the idea that players outperform their [...]

What contributes to the homeless crisis in the United States? Why are some people chronically homeless? How does mental illness impact homelessness? The purpose of this p[...]

The worlds first successful crypto currency (Bitcoin) has gained a lot of attention both positive and negative. The main issue keeping Bitcoin from being fully accepted b[...]

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of electric vehicle consumer awareness on the subsequent purchasing patterns of consumers across the [...]