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Quality of Public Education based on the State’s Economics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11)
It is proposed that the economic conditions of a state can explain the quality of public education in that state. The GDP per capita, personal income per capita, and poverty levels for each state are observed to evaluate ...
Effect of GDP Per Capita on National Life Expectancy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11)
Using cross sectional data from several sources, this paper seeks to find a correlation between per capita GDP, public health expenditure, and average years of education with the cross country life expectancy as measured ...
Impact of Educational Attainment on Crime in the United States: A Cross-Metropolitan Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11)
This study seeks to find a relationship between educational attainment of the population aged 18 years and older, and violent and property crime, in 342 metropolitan areas across the United States. While past studies have ...
Understanding How Unique Attributes Might Affect Poverty
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11)
The paper starts out noting that poverty has become a major problem for numerous
nations. It is argued here that poverty is probably correlated with education and that there are
several factors which might have significant ...
Regression Analysis of Electrical Energy Consumption with Cross-Country data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04)
This paper performs a cross-country analysis in order to reveal the relationship among energy consumption, country GDP, country energy net export and country population in developing and developed countries. After performing ...
Crime Index VS. Average Years of Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04)
The relationship between a country’s crime index and education level is an important thing for policy makers to study because it can help make a city or country a safer place for the citizens. There are other variables ...
The Effect of Income Inequality on Crime
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04)
Empirical research on the relationship between income inequality and of robbery and property theft. Our
focus upon this literature lies within the visible manifestation of inequality with regards to the use of the
Gini ...
A CrossCountry Analysis: the Effect of Income, Life Expectancy, and Education on the Human Development Index
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04)
Although the Human Development Index (HDI) has garnered criticism for its simplistic
weighting scheme, the nationallyrecognized
index is still used by governments to determine the
effectiveness of policy decisions. This ...
Econometric Analysis: Effect of Barriers on Trade
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11)
In this analysis we seek to investigate the impact of various import tariffs on trade as a percentage
of GDP. Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) set up defined tariffs to help facilitate trade
with one another. ...
Modern Day Evaluation of the Preston Curve: The Relationship Between Life Expectancy and Income
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11)
The Preston Curve has long served as the foundation of global health policy with significant
attention given to its implication that income has a causal effect on life expectancy. Our research sets to
evaluate this ...