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Access is Not Enough: Impacts of Electrification on Women's Time Use in Guatemala and El Salvador

Creator:: Duvall, Kathryn
Abstract:: The benefits of electrification are widely discussed in energy and development literature, but little research to date has studied the impacts of household electricity access on women in particular. Women make up the majority of the world’s poor and are also disproportionately affected by energy poverty because of their social...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . 1 Robeyns introduces the list by stating it is “[f]or the conceptualization of gender inequality in

Values Matter: A Study of Individual Valuation of Democratic Governance in the Public and Private Sectors

Creator:: Crowley-Hall, Corey
Abstract:: In recent years there has been a growing debate in the field of public administration over whether public employees are essentially self interested. Public choice theory contends that all people are self-interested utility maximizers, and as a result that public employees would seek to use their position for personal gain....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Association, 2009). The World Values Survey is a project spearheaded by the University of Michigan’s Ronald

Entrepreneurial policy in South Eastern Europe : the role of culture, economics and regulation in augmenting MSME development

Creator:: Braybrooks, Melissa
Abstract:: MSME development has emerged at the forefront of economic policy, with the majority of policy mechanisms aimed at creating the regulatory and institutional environments, which have historically proven to augment entrepreneurial activity. In the case of Europe a large portion of entrepreneurial policy resides within the European Community framework, however...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: …...……………………..…….. 50 Appendix F Indirect Culture Influence…..…………………………..……........ 51 LIST OF

Determining the Superior Staffing Method in Assisted Living Facilities: Ratios versus Acuity-Based Staffing

Creator:: Finley, Tera R.
Abstract:: Assisted living facilities represent a large portion of the long-term care facilities in the United States. Although there are not uniform policies regulating assisted living facilities, debates on the best way to ensure adequate staffing center on two approaches: required ratios or acuity-based staffing. The purpose of this study is...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Technocracy, Democracy and the Role of Scientists in Natural Resource Policy

Creator:: Clark, Will
Abstract:: The complexity of modern environmental problems has increased appeals for including scientific research and findings in natural resource policy decision making. Though scientists, resource managers, interest groups, and the general public support more science-based environmental policy, these preferences have been accompanied by growing calls for decentralization and democratization of policy...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Looking for 'common ground' in genetically modified crops policy : an interview-based study

Creator:: Starr, Christopher D.
Abstract:: Over 90 percent of the soy, cotton, and corn sold in the United States are genetically modified crops (GM crops). However, there was a 209 percent growth in USDA certified organic food from 2005-2015, reflecting a growing interest in non-GMO food. The policy debate over GM crops takes place between...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: crops in organic farming (Ronald & Adamchak, 2008). 10 2. LITERATURE REVIEW Underlying

Continuity and Change in American Housing and Homeless Policy: An Expanded Theoretical Framework

Creator:: Parker, Ashley
Abstract:: Homelessness has many faces, several of which society will never truly see. The homeless population has begun to change during the recession, as families lose their homes to foreclosures due to high interest mortgages or become evicted from rental dwellings as one or both wage earners lose employment. The initial...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

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
Full Text:: businesses. It is derived from daily temperature observations, with 65°F as the base for computations of

Bullying Victimization and Substance Use among Adolescents: Using Strain Theory to Examine Patterns across Gender, Race, and Mental Health Status

Creator:: Beck, Kendra G.
Abstract:: A growing body of research has connected bullying victimization to a number of risk factors in adolescents, including substance use. The current study utilizes Agnew’s revised strain theory as a theoretical framework to examine this relationship, as well as patterns of substance use across gender, race, and mental health status....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

International environmental treaty-making. The future of the UN BBNJ Treaty

Creator:: Banshchikova, Inga
Abstract:: Because the environmental threats are becoming global in scope, international cooperation and global governance issues are in the spotlight. The most controversial environmental law and policy problems arise in the areas where no individual state has sole responsibility for governing, "global commons." Scholars believe that the best way to deal...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: , such as F. T. Christy's research on fisheries suggesting more restrictive rules (Christy, 1982); Y. S

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Access is Not Enough: Impacts of Electrification on Women's Time Use in Guatemala and El Salvador

Values Matter: A Study of Individual Valuation of Democratic Governance in the Public and Private Sectors

Entrepreneurial policy in South Eastern Europe : the role of culture, economics and regulation in augmenting MSME development

Determining the Superior Staffing Method in Assisted Living Facilities: Ratios versus Acuity-Based Staffing

Technocracy, Democracy and the Role of Scientists in Natural Resource Policy

Looking for 'common ground' in genetically modified crops policy : an interview-based study

Continuity and Change in American Housing and Homeless Policy: An Expanded Theoretical Framework

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

Bullying Victimization and Substance Use among Adolescents: Using Strain Theory to Examine Patterns across Gender, Race, and Mental Health Status

International environmental treaty-making. The future of the UN BBNJ Treaty

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