By Cody Cook, Scott Loring, Teddy Niemiec, and Kayla Reinherz. University of Chicago. --- This paper explores the impact of macroeconomic forces on the market for prostitution.
Tag: 2014
The Provision of Microfinance in the Nilgiris District
By Aishwarya Ramesh. New York University. --- In this essay, I responded to the research question “What Impacts has the Provision of Microfinance had on thirteen Self Help Groups in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu?”
A Framework for Selecting Quality Course Providers at Competititve Prices
By Paige Gonye, Adeeb Sahar, Kyle Vandenberg, and Scott Ferron. Stanford University. --- This paper develops a coherent payment mechanism for supplemental courses that incentivizes quality student outcomes and forms the basis for practical and adaptive state level policy.
The Path to Being an Economics Professor
By Zhengye Chen. University of Chicago. --- What success do United States graduate economics programs have in terms of having their graduates achieve associate or full professor status in top-ranked economics departments?
Estimating the Compensation Differential for Paid Sick Leave Benefits
By Shawn Du. Princeton University. --- In this paper, we seek to estimate the wage compensation differential for paid sick leave in the United States using national-level data from the 1996-2010 data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey...
Research on Underage Cigarette Consumption
By Angie Qin and An Hu. New York University. --- Over decades, we witness a significant increase in amount of research on cigarette consumption. Among these researches...
Examining Social Costs of Electricity Generation in the United States
By Sam Kurland. Stanford University. --- This paper briefly reviews existing literature on social cost estimates for electricity generation in the United States...
Oil Development in the Amazon
By Abhishek Garg. Stanford University. --- The Amazon rainforest is one of the most bio- diverse but also one of the most oil rich places in the world. These two characteristics make policy decisions regarding the forest a dilemma between...
2013 Baseball Hall of Fame
By Natalie Weinberg. University of Pennsylvania. --- The purpose of this paper is to outline potential reasons why the 2013 election vote into the Baseball Hall of Fame failed to elect a new player. The paper compares various voting rules, and analyzes specific statistics of players.