This paper provides an international comparison of rates of intergenerational income mobility. Age-dependence of income persistence estimates (explained and quantified in this work) suggests that comparisons of multiple studies using different selection rules will result in erro…
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This document analyses economical convergence in Africa by using the real PIB per capita like measure of income per capita. The study considers all African countries, except Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Liberia, Libya, Mayotte, Reunion, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia…
During the last twenty years, Saudi Arabia has undergone fundamental economic and social changes. These changes were fast and sudden and they affected the Saudi households' consumption expenditure behavior. An analysis of changes in consumption behaviors of Saudi households is t…
This dissertation examines the role of micro-credit on the liquidity constraints faced by poor landless and near-landless households in rural Bangladesh. The objective of the study is to examine whether collateral-free interest-bearing micro-loans from the Grameen Bank can help …
Through a study of the history and performance of successive military regimes, this thesis examines the role of military governments in economic development, particularly the creation of a market-enabling environment in Nigeria. The key question underlying this research is: did …
In the present paper, we identify several distributions from Physics and study their applicability to phenomena such as distribution of income, wealth, and expenditure. Firstly, we apply logistic distribution to these data and we find that it fits very well the annual data for t…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia places great emphasis on developing the productive skills of its labor force. Part of this effort involves providing jobs for Saudi nationals, the so-called "Saudization" program. The number of Saudis employed in the private sector is very low, and fo…
The recent hurricanes of Katrina, Rita, and Dolly have brought to light the precarious situation populations place themselves in when they are unprepared to face a storm, or do not follow official orders to evacuate when a destructive hurricane is poised to hit the area. Three c…
In the face of threats caused by both anthropogenic and natural reasons, the question of the sustainability of medicinal plants has emerged very strongly in recent times. These plant resources, therefore, have become important domains of intervention and are increasingly attract…
My dissertation investigates the reasons behind the persistence of income among individuals and US counties. I look at the role of initial conditions in explaining current level of income. In my first essay, I look at how childhood neighborhood conditions affect income of a pers…
Unexpected increases in a mutual fund's risk level could cause significant financial loss to an investor relying on that fund's risk consistency. The purpose of this study was to determine if domestic, A-share, large capitalization value income, and domestic, A-share, large capi…
Using public opinion survey data from Arab Barometer Project Wave I, this study investigates the relationship income and education and support for democracy in six Arab countries: Yemen, Morocco, Palestine, Algeria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Unlike related studies, this study focuses…
Using feminist perspectives, the treatment of women's participation inkhatejadidleisure sport within leisure studies and the sociology of sport, iskhatejadidexplored. The review traces the progress made, in moving enquiry away fromkhatejadidquestions of distribution, towards que…
This dissertation includes three essays in economic history and applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I investigate the intergenerational effects of a negative shock in wealth for African Americans by examining the failure of the Freedman's Bank. I find that children of …
This quantitative non-experimental cross-sectional linear multiple regression study was completed in order to examine the relationship between differentiation of self and marital satisfaction for 112 cisgender males and females with gender, age, income, location, ethnicity, educ…
This dissertation consists of two essays which are concerned with the measurement and description of Income Inequality. Chapter 1 studies the measurement of inequality when data is presented in binned form. While various methods have been proposed for this purpose, I reveal an i…
This dissertation presents three papers addressing the intersection of income inequality and religion, focusing on beliefs, disagreements, and politics. The first paper addresses how religion influences beliefs about income inequality around the world. The literature on stratifi…
In the first essay, titled "Is Economic Transition a Health Hazard? Estimating the Short-term Effect of Income on Self-assessed Health in Russia: 1994-2000," I use data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to estimate the causal impact of income on self-assessed healt…