How has the amount, distribution and structure of executive compensation changed over the past 20 years? What effect, if any, do these factors have on the financial returns of corporations? Finally, are there any clear ...
9/11 marked a notable rise in Islamophobia within American society that has since remained a prevailing reality. For the purposes of this paper, I define Islamophobia as a negative bias against Islam and/or Muslims expressed ...
Food deserts, or “areas that lack access to affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk, and other foods that make up the full range of a healthy diet” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010), ...
POLICY QUESTION:
Which pre-compliance conservation strategies have the greatest potential to conserve multiple unprotected species in North Carolina?
BACKGROUND:
Pre-compliance conservation involves landowners working ...
Executive Summary
Policy Problem: Special education services for children in North Carolina schools are highly dependent upon the development of individualized education programs, or IEPs. In fact, without an IEP in ...
This paper examines how developed countries allocate foreign aid to less developed countries. In
giving aid, countries act on a variety of motives that have received much attention in academic
literature. I focus on three ...
The literature base examining the impact of household energy interventions on the health outcomes of populations exposed to indoor air pollution ignores gender dimensions. Understanding these gender-differentiated impacts ...
From the late 1990s until the mid-2000s, real residential property prices increased by more than 80 percent in the U.S. housing market. After U.S. home prices peaked in 2006, the demand for home purchases and construction ...
This paper examines two factors involved in the environmental health risk of indoor air pollution for households in Indonesia. First, I examine the determinants of a household’s decision to switch to cleaner burning fuels. ...
In the United States, the built environment is responsible for nearly 37 percent of the nation’s total energy consumption and around 70 percent of its electricity use. Residential buildings account for almost 21 percent ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has committed to regulating greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from stationary sources under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (“CAA”). There are only a few established regulatory ...
The purpose of this study was to examine private sector-civil society partnerships. The literature section focuses on factors that make partnerships work. The study also examines two joint advocacy projects that KEPSA has ...
POLICY QUESTION (PAGE 1)
How could the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP) cooperate with Beijing MTR Corporation (BJMTR) to launch a reading promotion program via subway advertising?
BACKGROUND AND ...
This paper uses survey data and quantitative analysis to assess the economic impact of BRAC Uganda’s microfinance program on participants. The study finds that BRAC’s program seems to confer significant positive benefits ...
Many migrant children who are eligible for Medicaid are not enrolled in the public insurance program while residing in North Carolina. This qualitative study explores the barriers migrants face when enrolling children in ...
POLICY QUESTION: “Based on results of pilot programs and policies implemented in other parts of the country, how can New York City/State best support and incentivize responsible small-dollar lending in low-income communities?” ...
Policy Question
What social, economic and environmental factors hinder the enrollment of disabled, primary school-aged children in the United Republic of Tanzania, and how can the government turn the country’s existing ...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since the economic reform in the late 1970s, China’s economy has experienced consistently rapid growth, with a drastic change of production pattern and income distribution. The increasing income ...
Analyzing Current Population Survey (CPS) Tenure Supplements from 2004 through 2010
and five years of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97 cohort (NLSY97) data from 2004-2008,
I find that the job stability of men ...
This project focuses on addressing the jurisdictional loophole for private security contractors employed by the U.S. Department of State. In Iraq, the United States has approximately the same number of civilian contractors ...