Women’s labor force participation has skyrocketed in the past half-decade. With this shift, the demand for child care has also risen dramatically. Women increasingly need child care during work hours, whether it be from a ...

The improvement of maternal health is one of Bangladesh’s primary development concerns. Despite a decline in the maternal mortality ratio in the past decade, the maternal mortality ratio still remains high at 170 deaths ...

Money is a tool people deal with on a daily basis. It is also an important instrument for governments to manage their functions. But despite the familiarity, probably few people could tell exactly what money is, or how it ...

I apply propensity score matching to estimate the average and individual effects of 65 democratizations in the 1965-2011 period on long-term growth. The matching successfully establishes balance between the control and ...

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how fertility patterns are affected during conflict. Thus, the question under consideration is: What is the effect of conflict and displacement on fertility patterns? A Case Study ...

This econometric study examines the effect of minimum wage increases on poverty and public program participation using individual-level data from the 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), ...

Education is often a means to intergenerational mobility, but it still remains inaccessible to many people in much of the developing world. Higher education institutions directly affect the higher education level of the ...

In this thesis, I have performed time series analysis and forecasted the monthly value of housing starts for the year 2019 using several econometric and machine learning algorithms. In the rapidly emerging field of artificial ...