Using 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), the three essays examine intra-household human capital resource allocations in rural Indonesia. The first essay, “Educational Resource Allocation between Boys and Girls: A Structural Approach”, formulates a structural model allowi…
Research suggests that military service advances social mobility for racial and ethnic minorities because of the less discriminatory environment and steady employment with generous benefits, especially GI Bill benefits for funding college education. Changes in the social and pol…
A new influence model for Cyber Security is presented that deals with security attacks and implementation of security measures from an attacker's perspective. The underlying hypothesis of this model is that Criminological theories of Rational Choice, Desire for Control, and Low …
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…