Despite the recent increase of women's employment rate, women continue to be underrepresented in science and engineering. This could be largely attributed to the fact that many women are leaving science after receiving a ...

This paper looks at the effects of beauty and skin tone on income using data from the General Social Survey. Beauty premiums and skin tone penalties exist and have a significant impact on labor market outcomes. More beautiful ...

This is an investigation into biases in the capital sentencing process in the United States between the years 1983 to 2001. Its aim is to determine if biases exist due to race, gender, or education level in the sentencing ...

In this paper I examine how jersey sponsorship in professional sports translates to the stock market. Companies such as Chevrolet and Yokohama Tyres invest millions of dollars every year to have their name printed in bold ...

This study examines bottle bill laws to determine if providing monetary incentives for recycling affects recycling participation rates. It also analyzes the extent to which a state’s bottle bill law influences people to ...

The purpose of this thesis is to look at various characteristics of institutions of higher learning in conjunction with each institution’s number of arrests and internal disciplinary actions for drug and liquor law violations. ...

Literature on fan attendance in sports has shown evidence of discrimination against minority players that has gradually dissipated over the last several decades. In the same timeframe, the population of different minorities ...

This study investigates how the 4 generational cohorts in the US differ in their expectations regarding various job market and personal employment opinions. To conduct this inquiry, actual unemployment rate data from the ...

This thesis evaluates the effect of the Middle Income Students Assistance Act (MISAA), passed by the federal government in 1978, on college enrollment and specifically the probability of women attending college. I hypothesize ...

Economic theory suggests that individuals base their behavior in economic games on both payoff and fairness considerations. Cox et al. (2007) propose that fairness is a function of relative status. I propose that players ...