Researchers have found that debts are brought upon countries by corrupt public officials' mismanagement of funds, including those in Guyana. Although researchers have examined the impact of corruption on the Guyanese economy, to date, no research has examined the effects of the …
This doctoral dissertation analyses depictions of hell in sanctions, i.e. threats of punishments in Anglo-Saxon charters. I am arguing that an innovative use of sanctions as pastoral and ideological instruments effected the peak of infernal imagery in the sanctions of tenth-cent…
The dissertation consists of three essays in applied economics. The first essay, Decentralizing Development. Allocating Public Goods via Competition , analyzes a World Bank attempt to overcome a lack of local accountability in community driven development programs by having Indo…
The primary purpose of this analysis is to identify the kinds and amounts of grants made, and factors related to grants made, by Peninsular Malaysian households during the 1976-1977 time period. Grants received by the households are treated as an independent variable in this ana…
University administrators, boards of trustees, and state and federal legislators spend significant time and effort focused on retention and graduation rates at American colleges and universities. The California State University (CSU) is no exception with its systemwide focus on …
In 2016, enrollment in a public school Indian education program in the western United States dropped by over 1,000 students. Changes in enrollment policy for Title VI Formula Grants in 2015, coupled with findings of a program review conducted by the Office of Indian Education, f…