Policies surrounding government expenditures and revenues are often concerned with the size of the national public debt and whether it is sustainable or not. In this paper, the recent fiscal trends of 14 OECD nations are ...
Environmental injustice is a theory that claims distributions of toxic, hazardous and dangerous waste facilities are disproportionately located in low-income communities of color. This paper empirically demonstrates an ...
The goal of the paper is to better inform policy makers on the optimal placement of trauma center facilities. I examine the effect of Californian trauma centers vs. standard emergency departments on traffic fatalities for ...
The purpose of this document is to demonstrate how spatial models can be integrated into purchasing decisions for real-time bidding on advertising exchanges to improve ad selection and performance. Historical data makes ...
This thesis examines the framing of the Victims in Trafficking in Persons nonimmigrant Visa (T Visa), established in 2000 within the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA)—part of the domestic effort within the United ...
Maine and Arizona implemented public funding systems for state elections in 2000 with the aim of increasing competition and voter choice, curbing election costs, and reducing the influence of special interest money in ...
What factors make a difference in whether low socioeconomic status youth attend college, and how do some youth succeed despite lacking many advantages? In general, in both the U.S. and India youth who benefit from supportive ...
Underachievement is defined as a discrepancy between a student’s ability and performance. Underachievement in gifted children, namely those one to two years above grade level, is especially concerning. Gifted children of ...
This project examines the role that the concept of a “human right to health” played in the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). It analyzes this topic through the study of speeches made by ...
Childhood obesity rates in the United States have been increasing at alarming rates. Schools must play an integral role in obesity prevention efforts to reverse current trends. In order to understand how schools can improve ...
This thesis explores the development of Mainland China’s online “Comrade Literature” (同志文学tongzhi wenxue), a body of fiction linked to the experiences of Chinese homosexuals that emerged in the late 1990s. The central ...
Many teachers in the past decade have chosen to obtain teaching certification through alterative routes, and Teach for America (TFA) is one of the most popular programs offering alternative certification today. Much of the ...
This poetic project was inspired by extensive research of the John Zeigler Papers,
a collection of letters between John Zeigler and Edwin Peacock, two gay men
serving in the U.S. military during World War II. The ...
In the popular narrative of the civil rights movement in the United States, the role of women often becomes minimized or overlooked altogether; yet women played a critical part in engaging racial issues in their communities ...
“Detained Immigrants, Excludable Rights” analyzes how plenary power, as a form of discretionary authority, enabled U.S. immigration authorities to initiate, expand, and privatize a system of immigration detention over the ...
Modern day whole-genome sequencing and the ability to make comparisons across many taxa have significantly advanced the study of sex chromosome evolution. The scuttle fly, Megaselia scalaris, is an appropriate model system ...
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the popular protest movement that led to its success represent a significant departure from recent Egyptian history. Plagued by an authoritarian government and weak civil society, the ...
Throughout the twentieth century, homosexuality has been and remains a highly sensitive and controversial topic in China where homosexual people were actively persecuted under Communist rule. It was not until the advent ...
People are shaped by their backgrounds, and military service is arguably one of the most impactful experiences in which one can partake. Thirty-one of America's forty-three different presidents have served in the armed ...