The union wage premium has been a topic of heated debate among labor economists for over 50 years. Researchers have attempted to account for selection of workers into unions by employing numerous, often creative econometric strategies to remove unobse . . .

It is the responsibility of managers to create environments that allow for happy employees to perform at their best. In an effort to advance our understanding of such an environment, this paper investigated two factors associated with positive employe . . .

The study utilizes data from the 2010-2011 Nepal Living Standards Survey and several probit models to estimate the probability of enrollment for school aged children between the ages of five and seventeen for all households, households with and withou . . .

This paper examines the effect on hotel occupancy of room pricing, promotional discounts, value adds, honors membership, and the number of available promotions at the hotel. Using panel data acquired from four hotel chains, the parameters of a fixed e . . .

Cryptic species can often cause problems for baseline and ecological studies as these species are not readily identified in the field. Lottia scabra and Lottia conus form a north/south cryptic species pair where they occupy the same habitat, but L. sc . . .

Although sharing many of the same monetary policy tools of the West, Chinese central banking differs in many aspects. the People’s Bank of China leverages both market and non-market tools to fine-tune and dictate monetary policy. This paper seeks to e . . .

This study examines the role of financial socialization in low-income Hispanic households in order to determine if there was evidence of the transmission of values about behaviors such a saving and searching for the cheapest price from parent to child . . .

This thesis examines the long-run effects of imposing clean water regulations on the financial performance of firms in the Pulp and Paper Industry (PPI). Recent literature provides opposing viewpoints on how environmental regulation affects a firm’s p . . .

Gender peer effects on the educational production function are one of the most important determinants in choosing the most optimal sorting of males and female students into a school, grade and classroom. the Burkinablé Response to Improve Girls’ Chanc . . .

Since the early 2000s, a series of new voter identification laws have been passed. These laws could possibly reduce voter turnout in a way that provides a structural advantage to certain candidates. This paper uses state level presidential election tu . . .