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  • Rethinking Welfare-to-Work: A Microsimulation Exploring the Impact of a Working Families Tax Credit on Oregon Poverty

    Creator:
    Richards, Jaxon
    Abstract:
    The State of Oregon possesses a tumultuous relationship with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and currently experiences one of the lowest participation rates in the country despite attempting several policy reforms. The State of Washington has exhibited a comparatively similar relationship. However, it has adopted a distinctive policy supplementation...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    RichardsJaxon2023 Rethinking Welfare-to-Work: A Microsimulation Exploring

  • Muscle & money : determining the relationship between occupational physical demands and individual earning power

    Creator:
    O'Neill, Elizabeth A.
    Abstract:
    Women are economically disadvantaged in most U.S. labor markets, demonstrated by a persistent gender wage gap. The relative wage discrepancy can be understood as a result of labor market conditions, human capital investments, and gender discrimination. To determine if the wage gap could be decreased, I use classical regression modeling...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Earning Power By Elizabeth A. O’Neill MASTER ESSAY submitted to Oregon State

  • Predicting county-level food insecurity and hunger in Oregon

    Creator:
    Grussing, Jay D.
    Abstract:
    Oregon’s high hunger and food insecurity rates have been a concern throughout the last decade. These high rates earned Oregon the dubious distinction as the most food insecure with hunger state in the late 1990’s. While Oregon’s ranking has improved in recent years, our understanding of why Oregon ranked so...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    : _________________________________________________________________ Bruce Weber Oregon’s high hunger and food insecurity rates have been a concern

  • Did the Great Recession change SNAP participation behavior? A panel analysis of two Oregon SNAP participant cohorts

    Creator:
    Carroll, Joanna M.
    Abstract:
    This analysis explores potential changes in the behavior of Oregon's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants after the 2008 recession. I examine this using individual-level administrative data from the State of Oregon in a linear probability model and a duration model. After controlling for a standard set of factors known...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Great Recession Change SNAP Participation Behavior? A Panel Analysis of Two Oregon SNAP Participant

  • Response of marine stratus to successive polluting events by ships

    Creator:
    Sechrist, B.
    Abstract:
    Ship tracks have proven to be an ideal laboratory for studying the response of marine stratocumulus to an increase in aerosol pollution. Here the response of already polluted marine stratocumulus to further pollution was examined by studying the clouds where two ship tracks cross. 78 crossings of ship tracks were...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : UResponse of Marine Stratus to Successive Polluting Events by Ships. Abstract approved: James A

  • Housing Low-Income Americans: A History of Policy and Analysis of a Local Application

    Creator:
    Veritas, Kathleen
    Abstract:
    This paper explores the history of housing policies in the United States and how they were implemented. It also examines the effects of discriminatory practices against minorities and low-income groups. There is evidence that this systemic form of discrimination creates conditions that cause poverty and unequal access to education, home...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    learned a great deal from it. Thanks also to Dr. Mark Edwards for getting me started on this project. I

  • Water, energy, and ecosystem services : a study of businesses in Oregon's Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Hunter, Maria Lewis
    Abstract:
    This study uses interviews with 18 businesses in Oregon's Willamette Valley to explore business investment in the environment, and how this relates to ecosystem services, payment for ecosystem services programs, and the water-energy nexus. Our research led us to outline 5 factors that influence business investment in the environment, those...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Management presented on June 3, 2013 Title: WATER, ENERGY, AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: A STUDY OF BUSINESSES

  • Geocaching: Perceptions of Impacts and Identity

    Creator:
    Fisher, Dianna M.
    Abstract:
    Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity where participants (geocachers) utilize a handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or smartphone to download coordinates in order to navigate to the location of a hidden container, a geocache. Since its inception in 2000 geocaching has grown exponentially. The potential ecological and recreation management...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    sticking with me through this process. A big thank you to Mark Edwards for jumping in and serving on my

  • Using Weather to Explain Variation in State-level Food Insecurity: A Panel Data Approach

    Creator:
    Chatfield, Kristin
    Abstract:
    Most research on U.S. hunger and food insecurity is at the household level, where it occurs. Because policy to address food insecurity is created and implemented at the national and state level, hunger research at the state level provides important contextual information. By including weather data with state level economic...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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      committee, Mark Edwards, Roger Hammer, and especially my chair Bruce Weber: you all have  helped me become a

  • Urban Renewal in Albany Oregon: A Decennial Inspection of the Central Albany Revitalization Area

    Creator:
    Porsche, Katherine
    Abstract:
    This paper seeks to answer the question of the effectiveness of urban renewal through a decennial review and analysis of the costs and benefits of the Central Albany Revitalization Area (CARA) in Albany, Oregon. The topic is especially relevant at this time of constraining budgets, as a bright light is...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    in Albany Oregon: A Decennial Inspection of the Central Albany Revitalization Area by