ScholarWorks@Towson: Recent submissions
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The news of inclusive education: a narrative analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2001-10)This paper investigates a nationally publicized case in the debate over the best method of educating millions of children with severe disabilities. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, this paper analyses 4 years of the ... -
Media labeling versus the US disability community identity: a study of shifting cultural language
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-01)This study examines disability terminology to explore how the news media frame cultural representations of the disability community. More specifically, the paper examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act ... -
The politics of representing disability: exploring news coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
(Sage Publications, 2015)Twenty-five years on from the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), media representation of people with disability has become even more significant. More recently, the implementation of the National ... -
Understanding well-being among retirees experiencing late-life unemployment
(2018-05-30)This study examines the role of paid work as a form of occupational engagement, with consequent impacts on health, particularly as activity patterns shift during the transition to retirement. Occupational engagement is ... -
A Delphi study to develop an inventory of competencies needed to facilitate instruction in student-centered, one-to-one learning environments
(2018-05-30)Today's one-to-one, student-centered learning environments have unique qualities when compared to the traditional learning spaces of the previous decades and their characteristics hold important implications for both teacher ... -
A study on textual contents in online communities and social media using text mining approaches
(2018-05-29)With the advent of Web 2.0, users have become more interactive, and the population of user-generated contents (UGC) has also increased drastically on the web. Among various Web 2.0 applications, we focus on textual contents ... -
A macroeconomic analysis of energy subsidies in a small open economy
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2013)We construct a dynamic model of a small open economy to analyze the effects of large energy subsidies. The model includes domestic energy production and consumption, trade in energy at world market prices, as well as private ... -
Transfers and labor market behavior of the elderly in developing countries: theory and evidence from Vietnam
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2009-08-28)In this paper we argue that the strategic interaction between the labor supply decision of the elderly and private transfers from their children lowers the opportunity cost of leisure of the elderly. This in turn magnifies ... -
Global social interactions with sequential binary decisions: the case of marriage, divorce, and stigma
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-01-23)This paper studies global social interactions in a stylized model of marriage and divorce with complementarities across agents. The key point of departure from traditional models of social interactions is that actions are ... -
Health care financing over the life cycle, universal medical vouchers and welfare
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-01)In this paper we develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations (OLG) model with health shocks to analyze the life-cycle pattern of insurance choice and health care spending. We use data from the Medical Expenditure ... -
Does the availability of parental health insurance affect the college enrollment decision of young Americans?
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-06)The present study examines whether the college enrollment decision of young individuals (student full-time, student part-time, non-student) depends on health insurance coverage via a parent’s family health plan. Our findings ... -
Subjective health expectations
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)Subjective health expectations are derived using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We first use a Bayesian updating mechanism to correct for focal point responses and reporting errors of the original health ... -
Medical consumption over the life cycle: facts from a U.S. medical expenditure panel survey
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)We investigate the association between age and medical spending in the U.S. using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). We estimate a partial linear seminonparametric model and construct “pure” life-cycle ... -
Major ions in urban streams: a look at concentrations over time and across land cover
(2018-05-16)Major ions in urban streams remain understudied, despite the connections between ion concentrations and stream ecosystem health. The concentrations and variability of major ions were characterized for streams in the Maryland ... -
The macroeconomics of heath savings accounts
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)We analyze whether the introduction of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which is a health insurance reform coupled with a capital tax reform, can reduce health care expenditures in the United States, while simultaneously ... -
Does health insurance decrease health expenditure risk in developing countries? the case of China
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2011)This paper studies the impact of health insurance on individual out-of-pocket health expenditures in China. Using China Health and Nutrition Survey data between 1991 and 2006, we apply two-part and sample selection models ... -
The extension of social security coverage in developing countries
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2011-11-08)We study the dynamic general equilibrium effects of introducing a social pension pro- gram to elderly informal sector workers in developing countries who lack formal risk sharing mechanisms against income and longevity ... -
Regulatory enforcement, politics, and institutional distance: OSHA inspections 1990-2010
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2013-04-25)We explore the determinants of inspection outcomes across 1.6 million Occupational Safety and Health Agency audits from 1990 through 2010. We find that discretion in enforcement differs in state and federally conducted ... -
Fiscal austerity measures: spending cuts vs. tax increases
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2013-08-19)We formulate an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity and productive and non-productive government programs to study the macroeconomic and intergenera- tional welfare effects caused by risk premium shocks ... -
A macroeconomic analysis of the fiscal system in Egypt
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-10-27)We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal situ- ation of Egypt. We model Egypt as a small open economy that takes real interest rates and world prices of fuel as given. Since a large component ...