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Miller, Matthew | The Affordable Care Act and the Future of us Healthcare: Consumer Driven Care and Value Driven Care | Healthcare in the United States has drastically changed over the last two hundred years. Today, the United States has the most technologically advanced medical care in the world. But, as a result, costs have soared and currently account for 17% of the GDP, which is significantly higher than in other... | 2017 | |
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Jabini, Mohammad Emad | An Examination of Switchover Costs | This thesis project focuses on firm strategies that target consumer switchover costs of three industries: pharmaceuticals, information technology, and food processing. The project explores those that involve increasing customer dependency, predatory marketing, and hidden fees, which improve firms' b... | 2018 | |
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Otrusinik, Jan | Bank Profitability, Mergers and Acquisitions: An Empirical Analysis for the US Economy | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are popular strategies deployed by financial institutions to expand their balance sheets and consequently their market share. Economic and regulatory forces over the prior 30 years have been instrumental in driving M&A activity within the financial sector, yet limited ... | 2020 | |
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Meredith, Sarah | The Community and School Factors Effecting Student Achievement in Utah Public School Districts | In 2017, the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst (LFA) published a report titled "What Drives Student Achievement Across States?" finding that, "educational attainment of adults has the largest and most consistent impact on k-12 student achievement." This was analysis on three measure of studen... | 2020 | |
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David, Maria | The Effect of Physician Altruism on Patient Health Outcomes in a Signaline Game | I construct a model for interactions between patients and physicians and use the model to explore which conditions are necessary for the patient to receive a certain quality of care. The model allows the patient, upon observing an illness, to choose between treatment or no treatment options while th... | 2017 | |
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Stephan, Chandler | Family and Urban Structures as Determinants of Income Mobility Differences in Salt Lake | Income mobility is the measure of the difference between a child's income and their parent's income. A higher rate of mobility is indicative of a greater ability to positively change income over generations while a lower rate means there is less mobility. A higher rate of mobility can reduce the amo... | 2017 | |
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Gambassi, Jack L. | Framing social justice through the capabilities lens: examining post-conviction labor market barriers | This thesis relates two bodies of existing research: (1) the use of capabilities as the basis for a theory of justice and (2) labor market reentry barriers created by conviction history. The capabilities approach is an alternative analytical framework to understanding social justice than alternative... | 2023 | |
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Gordon, Matthew | Hysteresis and the learning-By-doing mechanism in the monetary policy context: a bayesian vector autoregression appoach | Standard macroeconomic theory typically assumes that output in the long-run is independent of the short-run business cycle. The hysteresis hypothesis assumes the contrary and supposes that short-run economic shocks can have a permanent effect on the level of output. This paper empirically tests the ... | 2022 | |
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Halberg, Nick | The Inverse effect of population growth on water use in Utah | The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute projects that Utah will experience rapid population growth over the next 45 years. It is commonly assumed that this sudden increase in population will subsequently lead to a sudden increase in the demand for water, thereby creating a need for new water diversions.... | 2020 | |
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Erturk, Ali Cem | Minimum wage employment effects | In this study, the employment to population ratios and unemployment rates of 16- 19- and 20-24-year-olds are modelled as a function of the minimum wage. The federal minimum remains constant while the state minimum increases in some states from 2010- 2019. Such a research question is useful because s... | 2023 | |
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Keyser, Madison | Utah's Nonprofits: Effects on the Economy and Ties to Gender Employment Inequality | 2018 |
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