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Incarceration Rates and Other Factors Influencing Crime Rates in the United States
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05)
Over the past several decades the size of the United States prison population has exploded and led many people to question whether or not the massive number of citizens we send to prison each year is an effective way to ...
Small Business and Employment: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-04)
Politicians within the United States regularly tout the advantages of promoting small business as a means to cure unemployment in the nation’s economy. This paper presents an unbiased cross-sectional study, across all fifty ...
Does Spending More Than the Challenger Lead to a Greater Percentage of the Vote?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05)
Previous studies indicate that campaign spending is not a significant factor in determining an
incumbent’s share of the vote. In this study, only “competitive” races, defined by Cook Political Report
as “Lean Republican,” ...
Who Will Strike Next And Why? An Economic Regression of Terrorism and Poverty
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05)
This study analyzes economic regressions between the number of organized violent,
international and domestic terrorist attacks and various metrics of the economic state of the country of
origin. From the literature, it ...
Why is the Rate of Unintended Pregnancies Increasing in the U.S.?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05)
The number of unintended
pregnancies in the U.S. has been rising since the legalization of abortion
and despite the higher availability of contraceptives. In order to address
these seemingly contradictory results, our ...