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Public Education Expenditures and their Effects on State Income
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04)
Education is considered to be one of the most vital factors in determining the success of an economy. This paper examines the connection between public expenditures toward post secondary education and state income levels. ...
The Effects of the NFL on Metro-level GDP
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-12)
Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, social, cognitive, and emotional factors on economic decisions of individuals [1]. In this paper, we test for an observable relationship between the Gross Domestic ...
Effects of Minimum Wage on Unemployment Rates Across the United States
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-12)
In recent years, there has been widespread discussion on the
effects of minimum wage on unemployment. In this paper, we have compiled
extensive data on the variation of minimum wage levels across states, as well
as ...
Cross-‐Country Effects of Inflation on National Savings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-12)
Inflation is considered to be one of the most crucial factors in daily life since it has a direct impact on some people’s savings. This
paper seeks to examine whether or not there is a relationship between
national savings ...
The Effect of Minimum Wage and Unemployment across Varying Economic Climates
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-12)
This paper aims to model and quantify the relationship between minimum wage and
unemployment rate. Both microeconomic and macroeconomic theory dictate that unemployment
rate will increase with an increase in the minimum ...
The Effects of Water Access on Government Health Care Spending Worldwide
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-12)
Water access worldwide affects numerous areas of personal
health. This paper attempts to analyze the effects that water access has on
total government health care expenditure in different countries. By utilizing
a ...
Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Exports and GDP
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04)
Our project examines the possible link between various countries’ exports as percent GDP and its GDP in US dollars in the year 2011 to determine exactly what effect an emphasis on exporting goods has on country GDP. We ...
Poverty and Obesity in the Developed World
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-12)
In the past three decades worldwide obesity rates have
skyrocketed, contributing to a myriad of health problems in the affected
regions. We have tested for the effects of various factors on obesity,
primarily the effect ...
The Miracle on Thin Ice: How A Nation's GDP Affects its Olympic Performance
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04)
The Olympics offer participating countries the opportunity to promote their best athletes and compete with other countries. In this paper, we compare and test country statistics in order to determine what factors have a ...
Evaluating the effect of Economic Freedom and other Factors on the Economic Prosperity of Nations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04)
In this paper, we aim to discuss the effects of variety of different economic freedom factors on real GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita of a country based on our initial hypothesis - higher the degree of economic ...