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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"U.S. states"”.
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Legislative Oversight Processes in U.S. States
… engage the legislative oversight process in states. To fill this gap, this research takes a grounded theory approach that uses thirty-three interviews with legislators, legislative staff, committee staff, and legislative research organizations in five states to test existing concepts and to …
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Frameworks for estimating virtual water flows among U.S. states
<p>The United States is the world's top virtual water exporting nation, but not much is known about the country's internal virtual water flow patterns and the volumes involved. Previous studies have suggested that the import of virtual water, defined as the volume of water required to produce a …
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The municipal bond valuation puzzle : evidence from U.S. States
… debt. The main motivation in doing so is that states do not issue their own currencies, and are therefore precluded from monetizing the value of their debt through inflation. I find that, contrary to Jiang et al. (2020), the market value of out- standing state-level government debt is typically …
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Factors impacting effective dual language immersion (DLI) programs across three U.S states
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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The Effect of a Capital Budget on Capital Spending in the U.S. States
… capital budget on capital spending in the U.S. states. The analysis is based on the James Poterba's 1995 study of the impact of a capital budget on capital spending using 1962 U.S. state-level data. I first replicate Poterba's model using the 1992-1996 data set that I had constructed for this …
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Intimate Partner Violence, Depression and Overweight/obesity - A Population-Based Study on Women in 7 U.S. States
… System (BRFSS). All women from 7 U.S. states where they answered questions in bodyweight, depression and IPV were included. Weighted multiple logistic modeling were utilized for analysis. Results: Out of 14,362 total females respondents, 8,066 (56.16%) reported as overweight/obese …
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Modeling the Effects of Traffic Reduction on the Severity of the COVID-19 Epidemic in U.S. States
… and deaths, throughout various U.S. States using the infection curve and equations from the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model.</p> <p>As a result of state and national governmental restrictions and public perception of the virus, traffic patterns were severely altered …
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Identifying Most Significant Geothermal Related Policies in Different U.S. Sectors
… related to geothermal energy systems in U.S. states. To understand how geothermal related policies diffuse from one U.S. state to another, and, therefore, better design policies to promote the use of geothermal energy in U.S. states, we need to perform several diffusion studies. This process …
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Partisan Politics and Green Foreign Direct Investment (Electrical Vehicle Industry in the United States)
… legislation and policies across all 50 U.S. states. I draw on a database of 1,039 federal legislation by individual legislators in the United States from January 2007 to January 2023. I also cover a database of 972 state legislation by individual legislators in 14 specific states that host EV …
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Agricultural virtual water flows within the USA
… equitable. Importantly, a core group of U.S. States is central to the network structure, indicating that both domestic and international trade may be vulnerable to disruptive climate or economic shocks in these U.S. States.
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Analysis of the influence of cryptocurrency regulation on levels of financial literacy
… of passage of cryptocurrency regulation in U.S. states on levels of financial literacy. Results indicate that living in a state where cryptocurrency regulation was signed into law, a decrease was observed in the level of financial literacy. This finding supports the growing literature on factors …
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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF CORPORATE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE
… and ratio of the Protestant population when U.S. states were admitted to the Union have reduced the number of hierarchical ranks and increased female representation in present-day firms’ top management teams. The effect has been partly channeled through legislation and laws promoting equality. In …
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Gender and Site-Name Recall of Geographic Sites Varying in Distance.
… city sites, regional cities, U.S. cities, U.S. states, world cities, world countries, and world continents/bodies of water matched correctly were determined. A demographic questionnaire was also presented. Overall, men performed significantly better than women on the U.S. cities measure, world …
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Professionalism, institutionalization and committee services in US. state legislatures
… in the committee systems of six U.S. states. I examine whether increased professionalization, as defined by increases in levels of member salary, legislative staffing, and time in session, causes legislatures to institutionalize in a manner similar to the U.S. Congress. Specifically, …
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Activating Our Tools: A Qualitative Analysis of Statewide Historic Preservation Plans
… Park Service, an online survey of SHPOs in U.S. states, territories, and Freely Associated States, and follow up interviews with seven states, this thesis analyzes current practices of State Planning, including common challenges to planning, areas of success, and innovative practices. This thesis …
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MODELING MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION
… 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 lognormal, gamma and …
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Enhancing state energy production : construction work in progress in energy infrastructure projects
… demand and the need for grid modernization. As states confront increasing energy shortages driven by broadband expansion, industrial growth, and outdated infrastructure, modernizing the electrical grid has become a central issue in energy policy discussions. One key area of focus is the …
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Panel data models with nonadditive unobserved heterogeneity : estimation and inference
… heterogeneity in the price effect across U.S. states.
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State-movement coalitions for building labor market systems at scale
… of statewide labor market systems in four U.S. states in the context of a specific programmatic idea-the implementation of career pathways spanning from high schools to colleges to employers. I found that state-movement coalitions can effectively scale labor market systems statewide by using …
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