Contributing Writer: William Laudon | May, 2024 If education is “the key to unlock the golden door of freedom” as George Washington Carver once put it, then this door remains locked for most Americans. Academic achievement …
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EQ Vol.14: Money Trees: The State of the Voluntary Carbon Market
Contributing Writer: Thomas Hadcock | May, 2024 “To secure cooperation in the area, flyers were distributed with cartoons of trees growing in the shape of dollar signs.” – Heidi Blake, The New Yorker The world is …
EQ Vol.14: ESG Scores Relationship with Profitability
Contributing Writer: Peter Flynn | May, 2024 Every company has an impact on the world that isn’t shown in the financials. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores try to quantify this impact. The goal of ESG …
EQ Vol.14: Eyes on the Street: Testing Jane Jacobs
Contributing Writer: Zachary Golden | May, 2024 The “eyes on the street” theory hypothesizes that the presence of people in a public space deters crime.[1] American writer Jane Jacobs introduced the theory in her 1961 book …
EQ Vol.14: Catalytic Offices: How Commercial Real Estate is Forcing Cities to Evolve
Contributing Writer: Jonathan Tong | May, 2024 The onset of the pandemic came with an exodus in office use. America’s ten largest cities saw their office utilization rates decrease by 80% as companies quickly adopted work-from-home …
EQ Vol.14: Defensive Medicine: The Economic Implications at and Beyond the Healthcare Sector
Contributing Writer: Marissa Stolt | May, 2024 After weeks of battling what seemed like a common cold that would go away without medical intervention, Maria Clark contemplated visiting Urgent Care for treatment. As a low-income individual …
EQ Vol.14: Fishing for Answers: A Case Study of Bed Net Misusage and Perverse Incentives
Contributing Writer: Genevieve Goetz | May, 2024 “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. There are a lot of assumptions …
EQ Vol.14: Shaping Healthier Societies: Economic Strategies and Education for Public Health
Contributing Writer: Urmika Banerjee | May, 2024 Introduction Public health and medical care is a very diverse concept. There is an important connection between consumer behaviour in public health. People tend to look for different things …
EQ Vol.14: Crony Capitalism
Contributing Writer: Shloka Mohanty | May, 2024 Economic transactions often entail an inherent information and control asymmetry between parties involved, with one side possessing greater insight and authority. Asymmetric information is particularly pronounced in lending scenarios, …
EQ Vol.14: Dissertation Interview with Dr. Cody Kallen
Contributing Writer: Wyatt Broscious | May, 2024 Background: Dr. Cody Kallen is an Economist, working at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the International Finance division. He graduated with a PhD …