This research compiles and compares the biological health profiles of three urban populations at Venta Belgarum (Winchester), Londinium (London), and Eboracum (York) as a means for assessing health and status differences between military and non-military urban populations in Rom…
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Wrongful convictions continue to receive increased attention among scholars and wider society. The majority of attention focuses on the causes of wrongful convictions and trying to estimate their occurrences. Far less is known about the community reintegration experiences of wro…
This dissertation examines the differential impact of voter suppression on life expectancy, gestational age, and birth weight by race-ethnicity. Voter suppression, though not typically studied by public health researchers, is a critical part of understanding how racial dispariti…
This project will investigate the consequences of symbolic violence within the proposed structure of mass education in Argentina by critically examining Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Educación Popular, written prior to his presidency in the newly independent nation with the hope …
Mumbai is a city of cities, ranging from hyper-dense neighborhoods that lack access to the most basic services to affluent gated communities with luxury amenities. Today, as Mumbai looks to overhaul its crumbling infrastructure, it prioritizes the needs of the city’s elite. For …
Financial insecurity, inadequate family nutrition, poor health, and low self-esteem are some of the challenges faced by rural women in Southern Nigeria due to lack of income. Although the advantages of microfinance in developing countries are well documented, little is known abo…
This dissertation analyzes how early inequalities in health and education affect later educational, health, and social and emotional outcomes. I place particular emphasis on how the unique economic circumstances of the developing world interact with the dynamic and multidimensio…
China has achieved phenomenal economic development over the last three decades and is now the world's second largest economy. However, as observed by many economists, the country is characterized by a large and inefficient state sector, rising income inequality and severe resour…
Background GDP per capita is arguably the single most predictive determinant of health at the national level, yet such a measure fails to capture the complexity of wealth (and thus health) distribution within a population. Health at the individual level has been shown to be asso…
This study will take an economic historical approach to the Arab Spring in an attempt to discover why citizens across the Middle East and North Africa rose up against their respective governments and demand change. The study will focus, more specifically, on Egypt and Tunisia wh…
In this research project, I explored how the present processes of globalization affected the class structure in Bangladeshi urban societies. By specific references to Bourdieu's idea of cultural capital, I tried to explore how cultural capital was changing in urban Bangladesh an…
This dissertation explores how social networks affect economic wellbeing, with a focus on the impact of social capital on in asset accumulation and asset distribution. The first essay of this dissertation examines the idea that how wealth is distributed across social groups fund…
In a world filled with competing multinational corporations, a rising and falling global political economy, progressive advancements in technology and communication and immense inequality of wealth, globalization has become a buzzword often surrounded with expectations and misco…
South Africa has a ruling dominant party, the African National Congress (ANC), which has been in power since apartheid ended in 1994. In national elections, the ANC has consistently received an overwhelming majority of the vote, even though the majority of South Africa's citizen…
Education is a crucial factor for nations to advance their social, cultural and economic well being. Gender equality in education is in direct proportion to gender equality in the labor force, in equal power in household and decision making. Educating females lower mother and ba…
This dissertation comprises three essays examining the impact of globalization on the labor market and the effect of financial education on demand for financial services. The first essay analyzes the interaction between trade liberalization and the allocation of skill across ind…
I rectify a misconception in the growth literature that inequality is harmful for economic-growth (See Persson and Tabellini (1994)). 1 investigate the quantitative importance of intergenerational cooperation to economic growth, and show that the connection between income inequa…
This study combines an exploration of citizenship practices in and around the legal domain with an examination of the ways in which everyday interactions between the urban poor and various agents of the legal profession reproduce social hierarchies and inequalities. The thesis i…
The dissertation explores why and how the state in Bangladesh has been unable to link gender, class and environmental concerns in its development interventions and how civil society has responded to such an inability. Recognizing that the state and civil society are interdepende…