Environmental Risk and Averting Behavior: Predictive Validity of Revealed and Stated Preference Data

We conduct predictive validity tests using revealed and stated behavior data from a panel survey of North Carolina coastal households. The application is to hurricane evacuation behavior. Data was initially collected after Hurricane Bonnie led to hurricane evacuations in North Carolina in 1998. Respondents were asked for their behavioral intentions if a hurricane threatened the North Carolina coast during the 1999 hurricane season. Following Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd in 1999, a follow-up survey was conducted to see if respondents behaved as they intended. A jointly estimated revealed and stated behavior model indicates that the hypothetical and real evacuation behavior is based on the same choice process. Using predictions from this model with a hypothetical bias correction we find that it predicts actual evacuation behavior with small forecast error. These results suggest that stated behavior data has some degree of predictive validity.

North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Civil War and Reconstruction in North Carolina Abraham Lincoln did not appear on the ballot in North Carolina during the 1860 presidential election. Instead, the state’s popular support went to Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. When South Carolina called for North Carolina’s seces...

Case Study of Unemployment Insurance Reform in North Carolina

In July 1, 2013 unemployed workers in North Carolina lost access to all federally ?nanced unemployment bene?t extensions. In this document, the authors collect and describe available evidence on the performance of the labor market in North Carolina following this reform

North Carolina Security Interests

Review of NORTH CAROLINA SECURITY INTERESTS by Richard A. Lord and Charles C. Lewis

North Carolina Security Interests

Review of NORTH CAROLINA SECURITY INTERESTS by Richard A. Lord and Charles C. Lewis

Thirty Great North Carolina Science Adventures: From Underground Wonderlands to Islands in the Sky and Everything in Between

Thirty Great North Carolina Science Adventures: From Underground Wonderlands to Islands in the Sky and Everything in Between (Southern Gateways Guides). April C. Smith and Sarah J. Carrier. ISBN: 978- 1469654959. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 304 p. $22.00 (Pbk.)

The Shadows of Life: Medicaid\u27s Failure of Health Care\u27s Moral Test

North Carolina Medicaid covers one-fifth of the state’s population and makes up approximately one-third of the budget. Yet the state has experienced increasing costs and worsening health outcomes over the past decade, while socioeconomic disparities persist among communities. In this article, the authors explore the factors that influence these trends and provide a series of policy lessons to inform the state’s current reform efforts following the recent approval of North Carolina’s Section 1115 waiver by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The authors used health, social, and financial data from the state Department of Health and Human Services, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the University of North Carolina to identify the highest cost counties in North Carolina. They found higher per beneficiary spending to be inversely related to population health, with many counties with the most expensive beneficiaries also reporting poor health outcomes. These trends appear to be attributed to a breakdown in access to basic health services, with high cost counties often lacking adequate numbers of health care providers and possessing limited health care services, leading patients to primarily engage the health care system in a reactive manner and predominantly in institutional care settings. To illustrate this pattern, the authors developed case studies of Tyrrell County and Graham County, which respectively are home to the state’s worst health outcomes and most expensive Medicaid beneficiaries. The authors combined stories of these counties with the larger historical trends to offer policy recommendations to help reorient North Carolina Medicaid around patient needs. The results shed light on traditionally understudied hotspots of cost and poor outcomes in North Carolina, while proposing tangible steps to support reform

Clay wraps : containers

The thesis consists of eleven ceramic sculptures. The thesis was exhibited in the Weatherspoon Art Gallery of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from April 24 through May 15, 1977. A 35 mm color transparency of each work is on file at the Walter C. Jackson Library of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty

During the summers of 1964 and 1965, more than 300 college students fanned out across the state of North Carolina in a bold campaign to defeat poverty and, as they saw it, to uplift the poor. Korstad and Leloudis trace the history of the North Carolina Fund\u27s Volunteers program, provide an analysis of the contribution that those students made to fighting poverty in the state, and evaluate the impact of that experience on the lives of the Volunteers themselves