15 research outputs found
The Demography of Paid Family Leave as Applied to Connecticut
Paid family leave policies have become an international standard, influencing how Americans view parental rights. This international influence has garnered domestic support, resulting in a few US states passing their own policies. Given that every state is unique, it is important to understand how demographic and policy differences influence leave usage in the presence of a paid leave policy. Using data from the Current Population Survey, these effects will be analyzed using difference-in-difference estimations on California, which has an existing paid leave policy, and then applying them to Connecticut, whose paid leave policy has yet to be implemented. The model predicts that parents in Connecticut are comparatively more likely than parents in California to take parental leave, considering policy and demographic differences. Although the model focuses on Connecticut, it nevertheless provides policy makers with an idea of how changes in policy and demographics can influence leave usage in their own state
Lost Voices: Solutions for Achieving Gender Parity on Corporate Boards
Women have never gained a significant voice in corporate America, holding only 27% of the board seats on the S&P 500. Recently, an increasing number of Americans have grown to realize the inequity of this practice, resulting in a rise in female directors. However, this growth is slow and largely in need of a policy to speed up the process. Gender quotas have garnered the most attention, but political limitations make them largely unattainable in the United States. In order to assess viable alternatives, this thesis assembles a database on corporate practices and uses statistical models to predict what policies and suggestions will best suit the United States. The models indicate that a mix of policies which indirectly and incrementally increase gender parity will work best in the context of American politics. Although these policies are arguably less efficient than quotas, they are feasible alternatives that will help women attain a greater voice in corporate America
Utilizing Tax Incentives to Increase Gender Parity on Corporate Boards
Women are drastically underrepresented in positions of power and prominence in the United States. As of 2021, women hold only thirty percent of board seats on the S&P 500. The number is much smaller for private corporations. One study found that in 2020, women occupied only eleven percent of board seats for private corporations. Given these statistics, it is unsurprising that a 2021study predicts that corporate boards will not reach gender parity until 2032.
This underrepresentation matters for several reasons. First, the lack of gender equity on corporate boards is blatantly sexist. This disparity should matter for anyone who wants to reduce societal inequalities. Second, boards with high female representation are correlated with better outcomes for workers. Notably, there is a positive correlation between boards with high female representation and an increased receptiveness to workers’ needs. Third, gender-equitable boards help corporate stocks. This is attributed to higher returns on equity and better stock price informativeness.6 Lastly, having more female-led companies may reduce economic recessions. Research on the 2008 financial crisis indicates that banks run by men took more risks than banks run by women, leading to a financial recession.
This Comment will evaluate whether the Supreme Court of the United States’ interpretation of personal jurisdiction has progressed at the necessary speed to adequately address the issues arising out of Americans’ dependence on Amazon. More generally, it will look at the implications of the Supreme Court’s current understanding of personal jurisdiction and assess whether the current state of the doctrine is sheltering corporations behind new types of business models. By looking specifically at products liability litigation involving goods sold on Amazon, it will conclude that the expansion of e-commerce has challenged the adequacy of current approaches to personal jurisdiction and products liability disputes. The solution to the issues caused by this stagnant nature of law requires simultaneous specific personal jurisdiction and products liability doctrinal reform
Lattice renormings of spaces
Suppose is a locally compact Polish space, and is a group of lattice
isometries of which satisfies certain conditions. Then we can equip
with an equivalent lattice norm so
that is the group of lattice isometries of . As an application, we show that for any locally compact Polish group
there exists a locally compact Polish space , and an lattice norm on , so that is the group of lattice
isometries of
Topics on the geometry and classification of Banach lattices
We examine topics related to the geometric structure of Banach lattices of various classes, their properties, and classification using tools from functional analysis and mathematical logic. This work can be roughly divided into four parts. The first part (Chapter 2) presents several geometric results on Banach lattice analogues of classical Banach space theorems which ground results from later sections. The second part (Chapters 3 and 4) presents various results on the descriptive complexity of classes of Banach lattices and determines the complexity of the lattice isomorphism and isometry equivalence relations. The focus of the third part (Chapter 5) is the construction of a lattice isometrically universal separable ”Gurarij” Banach lattice by combining properties of the geometric structure of Banach lattices with Fraısse machinery that was developed in the context of continuous logic. Finally, we return to geometric considerations in the fourth and last part of chapter 6, which describes a method of renorming AM spaces so that the only lattice isometry is the trivial isometry