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The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Hours Worked for the Young and Low-Educated: An Analysis of the United States’ North East
Get PDFThis paper used individual level data to analyze the impacts of an increase in the minimum wage on hours worked and employment. The demographic analyzed was individuals between the ages of 16 and 29 who don’t have a high school degree and live in the United States’ North East. This analysis was disaggregated by gender and found heterogeneous impacts on hours worked and employment. The estimated impacts of the minimum wage for men in the analyzed demographic is a slight reduction in both hours worked and the probability of being employed. The estimated impact of the minimum wage for women in this demographic is a small increase in hours worked and a moderate increase in the probability of being employed. Both the effects on hours worked and the employment effect for men are of small magnitudes that they may better be seen as no effect. Only the employment effect for females has a magnitude that is of economic significance
How Often Does the Best Team Win? A Unified Approach to Understanding Randomness in North American Sport
Get PDFStatistical applications in sports have long centered on how to best separate signal (e.g. team talent) from random noise. However, most of this work has concentrated on a single sport, and the development of meaningful cross-sport comparisons has been impeded by the difficulty of translating luck from one sport to another. In this manuscript, we develop Bayesian state-space models using betting market data that can be uniformly applied across sporting organizations to better understand the role of randomness in game outcomes. These models can be used to extract estimates of team strength, the between-season, within-season, and game-to-game variability of team strengths, as well each team\u27s home advantage. We implement our approach across a decade of play in each of the National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL), National Basketball Association (NBA), and Major League Baseball (MLB), finding that the NBA demonstrates both the largest dispersion in talent and the largest home advantage, while the NHL and MLB stand out for their relative randomness in game outcomes. We conclude by proposing new metrics for judging competitiveness across sports leagues, both within the regular season and using traditional postseason tournament formats. Although we focus on sports, we discuss a number of other situations in which our generalizable models might be usefully applied
Windmills of Illinois -1
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Shirking and Remaining Years on Players’ Contracts in Major League Baseball
Get PDFThis undergraduate economics thesis is meant to find statistically significant evidence for shirking behavior in Major League Baseball (MLB). Theory suggests that players shirk on effort when they have recently signed a long-term lucrative contract, since there is little incentive to compete when money is guaranteed to the player regardless of current performance. It is particularly important to understand the MLB labor market, since the firms giving out contracts not only have a copious amount of production information regarding their employees, but this data is widely available to the general public. This study will make use of modern sabermetric statistics in order to further open up the conversation regarding shirking with advanced statistics. It will also seek to control for other motivational forces at play, such as intrinsic motivation of the player based on their own self-confidence, as well as extrinsic motivation regarding the performance of the time in terms of win-loss record. Such motivational factors had not yet been discussed within the shirking conversation
The Effects of the European Central Bank’s Public Sector Purchase Program on Eurozone Unemployment Rates
Get PDFThis paper assesses the impact of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP) on Eurozone unemployment rates. Using a panel dataset, I construct a series of OLS models to test the relationship in 18 Eurozone countries. Results suggest that PSPP purchases do not significantly influence Eurozone unemployment rates. However, the strength of the relationship changes depending on monetary policy lag time and the sub-regions examined. The findings contribute to the debate surrounding how the ECB conducts the PSPP as well as to the literature studying monetary policy’s effect on the real economy
Strike More, Spend Less?: The Correlation between Opinions on Race Specific Government Spending and Feelings towards Police Use of Force
Get PDFWith the foundation of past research on the relationship between indicators of racial prejudice, police use of force and attitudes towards it, I use the General Social Survey (2016) to examine the relationship between feelings on government spending on the Black community and approval of police officers striking an adult male citizen under different circumstances. Using feelings towards government spending on the Black community as an independent variable enables me to interpret the coded and implicit anti-Black sentiments within police practices and approval towards them further. After analyzing a sample of 704 respondents, I found that those who believe that the government is spending too much on the Black community are more likely to approve of a police officer striking an adult male citizen under various circumstances. However, the results of the bivariate correlation and multivariate regression consistently demonstrate that the race of the respondent had the largest effect on respondent\u27s approval of police officers striking citizens, with white respondents being more likely to approve of officers striking citizens under more conditions. These results are consistent with critical race theory, group threat theory and past research; it is pivotal in understanding how color-blind racism effects the extent to which police are held accountable for their actions
Nonverbal Communication -3
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MDOCS Poster-Spring 2018, Course List
Get PDFSpring 2018 Classes Documentary Studies Production Fundamentals DS 116A - Storytelling: Map Design and Spatial Visualization (1 cr) DS 116B - 360 Degree Audio Video and Photogrammetry (2 cr) -- NEW!! Documentary Studies DS 201 - Principles of Documentary (3 cr) DS 251D - Documentary Film Production: Form and Content (4 cr) DS 251C - Documenting Makers:Writing and Filming Artist Profiles (3 cr) DS 251C - Participatory Documentary, Socially Engaged Art and Community Media (3 cr) -- NEW!! DS 302D - From Story to Screen: Crew-Based Film Doc and Narrative Production (4 cr) DS 351B - Documentary Practice in Photography (7 weeks, March 21 - May 1) -- NEW!! (2 cr) DS 351C - Creative Research, Multimedia Storytelling (3 cr) - NEW!! DS 351C - Storytellers\u27 Institute Prep Course (3 cr) EN 228 - The Photo Essay (3 cr) -- NEW!! MF 351C - Law and Ethics for Media (3 cr) Projects DS 302A - Video Projects (7 wks) (1 cr) DS 202A - Digital Access Incubator Project (3 wks) (1 cr) - NEW!!
and related campus offerings in: HI 363D - Public History -- with a media editing project ID 351D - Video Ethnography in Saratoga County EN 363 - Testing the Limits of Documentary Practice AN 251D - Visual Ethnography AN 352B - Archival Collection and Curation AN 352D - Heritage and Communitie
An Examination of Homelessness and Mental Illness: The Argument for Better Affordable Housing Policy
Get PDFWhat contributes to the homeless crisis in the United States? Why are some people chronically homeless? How does mental illness impact homelessness? The purpose of this paper is to summarize and critically analyze existing literature and policies regarding the topic of homelessness while specifically focusing on one of the most vulnerable subgroups of the chronically homeless population, the mentally ill. Additionally, San Francisco will be used as a case study in order to determine if the city as a whole fits within the trends explained across the literature reviewed. Policy recommendations are explained in Section 3