Revisiting Crowd-Out

Reviews updated research on the extent to which expanding public health insurance programs reduces the role of private insurance, the impact of anti-crowd-out measures, and contributing factors such as incomes, enrollment patterns, and economic condition

Fixing Our Third World Access to Justice Problem

America has a serious access to justice problem. According to one survey, the United States ranks in the bottom third of world nations when it comes to providing affordable access to civil justice. We need to change this. This Article briefly reviews the access to justice problem. It then provides some specific steps individual lawyers can take to help remedy this problem

Why Latinas swing left: Ideological self-identification in conservative Chile

As recently as 2006, Latin American citizens have shifted to the left ideologically. This study begins by exploring the ideological orientation of women in socially conservative Chile. After analyzing existing literature on gender and ideology, this study goes on to suggest what has led Chilean women to ideologically self-identify to the left. Using a combination of case study analysis and Latin America Public Opinion Project analysis, this thesis proposes that specific social demographics, attitudes toward social issues, the economy, and government intervention are related to the ideological orientation of women. This study focused on multivariate ordinary least squares regression model analysis to evaluate the suggested hypotheses. Additionally, this thesis will address the implications an ideological shift to the left may have on Chilean society

Large School, Small Schoo: The Relationship Between a College Student\u27s High School Size and His Non Class College Activities

Past research indicates that the number of students in a high school is related to the students\u27 behaviors and subjective experiences. Students of small schools, vis-a-vis students of large schools (1) enter more different kinds of activities, (2) hold more responsible positions, and (3) experience more satisfactions in connection with their nonclass activities. Thus, the question was raised whether or not this higher rate of high school nonacademic achievement among students from small high schools had any more or less permanent effects on the student\u27s college nonclass activities. The’ Non Class College Setting (NCCS) Questionnaire was devised and administered to 130 subjects. Ninety-seven subjects were eventually selected as the sample, the screening criteria being marital status, residence at school, and location of high school. The results of the study indicated that college students from small high schools (1) participate more often in nonclass college activities, (2) hold more responsible positions in their activities, (3) spend more time in these activities, and (4) participate in activities that have fewer total active members than do college students from large high schools. These findings demonstrate that the student\u27s high school environment is related to his future behavior in college nonclass settings, thus displaying an instance of how the environment interacts with human behavior

Spatio-temporal dimensions of child poverty in America, 1990–2010

The persistence of childhood poverty in the United States, a wealthy and developed country, continues to pose both an analytical dilemma and public policy challenge, despite many decades of research and remedial policy implementation. In this paper, our goals are twofold, though our primary focus is methodological. We attempt both to examine the relationship between space, time, and previously established factors correlated with childhood poverty at the county level in the continental United States as well as to provide an empirical case study to demonstrate an underutilized methodological approach. We analyze a spatially consistent dataset built from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Censuses, and the 2006–2010 American Community Survey. Our analytic approach includes cross-sectional spatial models to estimate the reproduction of poverty for each of the reference years as well as a fixed effects panel data model, to analyze change in child poverty over time. In addition, we estimate a full space-time interaction model, which adjusts for spatial and temporal variation in these data. These models reinforce our understanding of the strong regional persistence of childhood poverty in the U.S. over time and suggest that the factors impacting childhood poverty remain much the same today as they have in past decades