Browsing Sanford School Master of Public Policy (MPP) Program Master’s Projects by Issue Date
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The Economic Value of a Biomass Harvesting Program: A Non-Market Valuation Study Design
(2018-06-20)The purpose of this paper is to address the following policy question posed by the United Nations Development Programme in Lebanon: How can the United Nations Development Programme in Lebanon assess the total economic value ... -
Barriers to Opioid Addiction Treatment
(2018-06-03)This Master’s Project explores if barriers to creating and managing opioid treatment programs and office-based opioid treatment programs in literature are accurately reflected in reality. The research question of this Master’s ... -
The Philadelphia 2030 District: Measuring Transportation Emissions Now and in the Future A Quantitative and Qualitative Review
(2018-04-20)This MP primarily focuses on the challenges surrounding measurement of Philadelphia’s 2030 District transportation emissions. While in the past, policy makers have primarily focused on electric power generation and industry ... -
Employer Perspectives on Former Offenders: An Analysis of How a Criminal Record Impacts the Hiring Decisions of Durham-Based Employers
(2018-04-20)How does a criminal record affect the hiring decisions of Durham-based employers? What, if any, services or incentives might increase the likelihood of these employers hiring former offenders? Roughly 700 individuals return ... -
Challenges Around Improving Learning Outcomes through Mother Tongue Language of Instruction Policy in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-04-20)How should the Education Division of the Bureau for Africa Office of Sustainability (AFR/SD/ED) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) adapt its approach to supporting mother tongue language of ... -
Budget Civic Engagement in the City of Durham
(2018-04-20)How can the City of Durham’s Budget and Management Services Department improve civic engagement in the budget development process? What opportunities exist to coordinate budget engagement with the city’s other civic engagement ... -
The Link Between International Religious Freedom and National Security: Ensuring a Safe America While Pursuing our Ideals
(2018-04)In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed into law the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). The law’s stated purpose was “to express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy ... -
State of Discipline: A Snapshot of Discipline Allocation in North Carolina Public Schools
(2018-01)This report provides a detailed picture of the state of discipline allocation in North Carolina public and, to an extent, charter schools up until the 2016-2017 school year. It specifically examines suspensions, expulsions, ... -
Energy, Economics, and Politics: An Analysis of Decisions to Pursue Large Hydropower Projects in Bhutan and Nepal
(2017-11-15)Large hydropower projects are on the rise. Once subject to universal condemnation by environmentalists and largely abandoned by international donors, these projects have been reborn as a critical component of “sustainable ... -
Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: The Impact of Juntos in Peru in Addressing Multi- Dimensional Poverty
(2017-11-15)In this paper, I present an analysis of the Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program which is the largest component of social protection in Peru. This analysis highlights the root causes for why Peru needs to combat ... -
What Is The Relationship Between Racial Housing Wealth Disparities and Violence In Cities?
(2017-09-18)Much empirical literature analyzing crime and violence omits an important theoretical “fundamental cause”: an underlying mechanism that might drive both the analysis’s proposed explanatory factors and outcome phenomena of ... -
Assessing the Enabling Environmental Factors for Large-Scale LPG Cookstove Adoption
(2017-06-26)Approximately 2.8 billion people around the world still cook their meals and heat their homes with solid fuels. In addition to being inefficient, the use of solid fuels for cooking leads to high levels of pollution, ... -
Assessing Community Based Water Organization Performance in Central America
(2017-06-26)What are the effects of household, community, technical, and environmental variables on the performance and resilience of CWOs in dry regions? Since 2014, drought has severely affected Central American economic and health ... -
The Impact of California Senate Bill 967 on Reporting of Sexual Assault on College Campuses
(2017-06-21)Sexual assault on college campuses is a longstanding and pervasive problem. Increasing media coverage has led to growing concern about sexual violence on college campuses and most universities’ failure to respond appropriately. ... -
Adoption and Short-term Impacts of Improved Cookstoves in Rural India
(2017-06-20)Half of the world’s population (2.7 billion people), of which 95 percent is in ‘poor’ countries, rely on solid fuels including biomass fuels like wood, dung, agricultural residue and coal, to meet most of their energy needs. ... -
You Really Need to Open This. Using Behavioral Economic Nudges to Increase Property Tax Compliance
(2017-06-19)By utilizing low-cost, behavioral economic "nudges," we achieved a significant increase in the rate of on-time property tax payments in Guilford County, North Carolina. Using a large-scale randomized control trial, we ... -
Financing a Pre-K Expansion in Durham: Lessons from Other Communities
(2017-06-19)A growing body of evidence suggests that public investment in high-quality preschool programs improves school readiness, and produces significant and lasting impacts on children across a wide variety of outcomes. Research ... -
Victims of Military Sexual Assault and Access to Interlocutory Appeals: The Need to Go Beyond the Ordinary Review Standard for Writs of Mandamus
(2017-06-11)This project analyzes whether writs of mandamus filed by victims of sexual assault in the military justice system should be reviewed at the standard of an ordinary interlocutory appeal. The project conducts a policy analysis ... -
Counter-Marketing Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Best Practices from the Truth Initiative
(2017-06-09)In the sixteen years since the 9/11 attacks, the United States government continues to execute a military-centric counterterrorism (CT) strategy in the Middle East and Africa, absent an integrated and synchronized information ... -
A Hard Bargain? A cost-benefit analysis of an improved cookstove program in India
(2016-08-01)In developing countries, access to modern energy for cooking and heating still remains a challenge to raising households out of poverty. About 2.5 billion people depend on solid fuels such as biomass, wood, charcoal and ...
