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Homelessness: A Preliminary Evaluation of an Effort to End Homelessness Durham County, NC
By Alexander Tilley The Durham Center is the public agency in Durham County responsible for connecting persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with the services that they need. In February of 2008 the Durham Center began to perform Care Review, where a 10-person Care Review team meets with an individual to develop […]
Driven to Cheat: A Study on the Drivers of Dishonesty—through the Game of Golf
By Scott McKenzie People like to think of themselves as more honest than the person sitting next to them. In practice, this cannot always be the case. Through two experiments, we investigated behavior in golf—a sport of self-governance, where the player is frequently confronted with opportunities to bend the rules and the score. Our research […]
An Investigation into the Interdependency of the Volatility of Technology Stocks
By Zoraver Lamba This paper examines the contemporaneous and dynamic relationships between the volatilities of the technology stocks in the S&P 100 index. Factor analysis and heterogeneous autoregressive regressions are used to examine contemporaneous and dynamic, inter-temporal relationships, respectively. Both techniques utilize high frequency data by measuring stock prices every 5 minutes from 1997-2008. We […]
Causal Inference and Understanding Causal Structure
By Alex Wang This thesis aims to show that explicit understanding of possible causal structures often aids in inferring the true causes from data. This is done by first understanding that causes are chains of counterfactual dependence. Insofar as experiments, active or natural are not perfect, data can easily support false counterfactuals. Even those tools […]
Running Head: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ASSET ALLOCATION: Rational Lifetime Investment Strategies: Gender Differences in the Allocation of Assets in
By Chase Lancaster Previous research has demonstrated that women have greater risk aversion than men. Controlling for age, education, family size, income, self-reported financial risk tolerance, and occupation, this study examines the impact of gender on asset allocation decisions in retirement accounts. Our findings suggests that after accounting for a large number of factors, single […]
Do Medical Malpractice Reforms Affect Health Care Costs and Outcomes?
By Matt Johnson The impact of medical malpractice reforms on the cost and quality of health care is of great interest to policy makers. This study examines national data on malpractice reforms implemented and health care provided to Medicare beneficiaries between 1995 and 2004. State-level reforms’ effect on health care expenditures and outcomes is determined […]
