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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"U.S. counties"”.
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Religious Affiliation and Women's Labor Patterns in U.S. Counties
… force participation I do, however, find that in counties where traditional families are the norm, increases in percent evangelical Protestant and percent Mormon are associated with decreases in women’s labor force participation and full-time employment. This study adds to a growing body of …
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Spatial analysis of poverty and prosperity in the U.S. counties
… and poverty status for all contiguous U.S. counties and non-metro counties. A spatial approach has been used to analyze the data as the data was spatially distributed. Using OLS, spatial lag, and spatial error methods, three models were developed and compared. Spatial error model explained …
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The Effects of Agglomeration On the Likelihood and Frequency of Patenting In U.S. Counties
… the likelihood and rate of patenting within U.S. counties. To examine patent activity we use a cross section of utility patents granted to U.S. and non-U.S. non-government organizations for each county in the contiguous U.S. during 1997. We analyze the effects that socio-economic characteristics …
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CHANGES IN HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR DURING THE BUSINESS CYCLE
… in mortality and crime. I use a panel of U.S. counties from 1990 to 2013. I allow changes in the unemployment rate to have different effects upon mortality / crime in large versus small counties as well as between increases versus decreases in the unemployment rate. My results show great nuance …
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MODELING MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION
… median household income distribution for 13 U.S. counties and seven U.S. states. Over the years, researchers have fitted income data with various probability distributions. During our review of the literature, we saw that researchers do not agree on any one best distribution. We will be looking at …
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U.S. school quality: The public benefits of primary and secondary education
… have a positive effect on inmigration to U.S. counties up to $7,000 but a generally flat effect beyond that. The third essay examines education tax referenda, which school districts propose to taxpayers to attain funding additional to their state-allocated funds. The chapter examines …
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Multi-level Methods for Estimating Community Language from Social Media with User and Community Sociodemographics
… the language of spatial units (e.g., U.S. counties) that contextualize people within their communities and leverage the multi-level, bi-directional relationships between people and their environments. Using corpora including billions of tweets from millions of geolocated Twitter users, I …
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Exploring Psychosocial Factors as Proxies for Attachment: Associations with Functional Health Outcomes in Older Adults
… older outnumber children in nearly half of U.S. counties, marking a significant shift in the country’s age distribution. These trends highlight not only the rapid pace of population aging in the United States but also its alignment with broader global patterns. The implications of these shifts …
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Qualitative Analysis of Social Capital in Arkansas – A Case Study based Approach
… of semi-structured interviews in three rural counties in Arkansas. The counties were selected on the basis of a social capital index of all U.S. counties using quantitative measures. I used a guide on qualitative research on social capital as my conceptual framework to analyze the interviews. …
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Regional economic performance and public infrastructure investment
… investment. I use a sample of U.S. counties to analyze public investment according to level of economic distress. With simple investment models, I estimated infrastructure needs for counties with apparent shortfalls. I analyzed the needs-estimates in a series of case studies in which …
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Essays on Local Public Finance and Financial Behavior
… by using county-level data from all U.S. counties over an extended period. Besides, the project contributes by examining the spatial link between local business activity in contiguous counties. The second essay examines how business activity responds to local taxation through the property …
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Social Capital and Government Performance in American Urban Counties
… government performance. The results suggest that counties with citizens that are more open to taking risks, that are more open-minded and less averse to change, that have faith in major political and economic institutions, that are more optimistic and that are more trusting of people they perceive …
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Tracking urban growth and composition along the western portion of the U.S. - Mexico border: 1985 -2010
… primary correlate with urban growth in the U.S. counties was housing while in Mexico, housing and the concurrent rapid growth of manufacturing were the major influences on urban growth rate. No role in the increase or decrease of growth in either country could be detected with the instigation of …
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Learning from multi-modal spatiotemporal data: machine learning approaches to advance resilience in smart grids
… of 520 million customer hours across 2,447 U.S. counties. Moreover, and with the rapidly changing climate, between 2000 and 2021, approximately 83\% of significant power outages impacting a minimum of 50,000 customers in the United States were attributed to severe weather conditions. Lastly, the …
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Integrated Predictive Modeling and Analytics for Crisis Management
… overdose fatalities predominantly affecting U.S. counties, 2) Proposing solutions for dealing with scarce and heterogeneous data sets, 3) Developing an algorithm that offers clear and actionable insights into the crisis, and 4) Conducting extensive experiments to validate the effectiveness of our …