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The overarching hypothesis is that a mother's education level when moderated by style of upbringi... more The overarching hypothesis is that a mother's education level when moderated by style of upbringing does impact their child's educational achievements. Existing research has mainly focused on the role of race and socioeconomic factors in society in general but fails to consider what happens within the household itself. Using the National Longitudinal Survey for the years 1997 to 2015 dataset (NLSY13), we analyzed the effects of the mother's education level on the child's education level. With help from the control variables of race, gender, and income; as well as the moderators of mother's strictness and supportiveness; we were able to conclude both from bivariate and multivariate models that a mother's highest grade level positively impacts the education level of their child, or the respondent of this survey. We additionally supported the general idea that the education of parents is the strongest predictor in a child's academic success, stronger than the variables we controlled for in the multivariate regression models. In order to further improve both the mother and child's educational achievements, policy initiatives should be in place to encourage female empowerment, gender equality, and access to education for women, so that they can create motivation in their children to find educational success.
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This paper seeks to compare three periods of N95 respirator supply before, during, and after Chin... more This paper seeks to compare three periods of N95 respirator supply before, during, and after China's state policy of requisitioning all N95 respirators between January and February of 2020. China manufactures a large majority of the United States supply of N95 respirators. Did this policy decision by China impact the imports of N95 respirators into the United States? By analyzing maritime import records from 2015 to 2021 using Differences in differences analysis we can compare trade activity between China (treatment group) and the World (control group) during the policy period. 2015 to 2021 was selected because it allowed for enough time before the pandemic; 2021 was the last period that data was available. The results indicated that the requisitioning of N95 respirators for use in China did not have an impact on the importation into the United States.
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The overarching hypothesis is that a mother's education level when moderated by style of upbringi... more The overarching hypothesis is that a mother's education level when moderated by style of upbringing does impact their child's educational achievements. Existing research has mainly focused on the role of race and socioeconomic factors in society in general but fails to consider what happens within the household itself. Using the National Longitudinal Survey for the years 1997 to 2015 dataset (NLSY13), we analyzed the effects of the mother's education level on the child's education level. With help from the control variables of race, gender, and income; as well as the moderators of mother's strictness and supportiveness; we were able to conclude both from bivariate and multivariate models that a mother's highest grade level positively impacts the education level of their child, or the respondent of this survey. We additionally supported the general idea that the education of parents is the strongest predictor in a child's academic success, stronger than the variables we controlled for in the multivariate regression models. In order to further improve both the mother and child's educational achievements, policy initiatives should be in place to encourage female empowerment, gender equality, and access to education for women, so that they can create motivation in their children to find educational success.
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This paper seeks to compare three periods of N95 respirator supply before, during, and after Chin... more This paper seeks to compare three periods of N95 respirator supply before, during, and after China's state policy of requisitioning all N95 respirators between January and February of 2020. China manufactures a large majority of the United States supply of N95 respirators. Did this policy decision by China impact the imports of N95 respirators into the United States? By analyzing maritime import records from 2015 to 2021 using Differences in differences analysis we can compare trade activity between China (treatment group) and the World (control group) during the policy period. 2015 to 2021 was selected because it allowed for enough time before the pandemic; 2021 was the last period that data was available. The results indicated that the requisitioning of N95 respirators for use in China did not have an impact on the importation into the United States.
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