Public Affairs Undergraduate Research Theses and Honors Research Theses: Recent submissions
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Mobility Access and Transit Infrastructure Impacts on Socioeconomic Disparity
Han, Jaehyun ( 2020-12 )Mobility not only means freedom to move, but also increase in potentials and access to new opportunities. Humanity has migrated in both micro- and macro-scale throughout history for various reasons, but most notably for ... -
Analyzing the Connection between Social Isolation and Deaths of Despair in Ohio
Listisen, Stephen ( 2020-05 )This paper examines the potential connection between social isolation and deaths of despair in the state of Ohio using data from 2016. The emergence of an upward trend in deaths caused by suicide, alcohol-abuse, and drug ... -
Infant Mortality and Issue Framing in South Linden, Columbus
Simmons, Megan ( 2019-05 )When public-private partnerships are utilized as a tool for proposing policy solutions to “wicked problems” in cities, frame asymmetry can arise as a result of competing stakeholder interpretations of the problem itself. ... -
NASA Field Center Governance: An examination of NASA’s funding – mission mismatch, organizational rigidity, and the proposed solution of transitioning field centers to the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) model
Edwards, Colin ( 2019-05 )This paper seeks to identify the budgetary and structural changes in the Agency and changes in the political environment that highlight the development of a misalignment between these variables and the Agency’s current ... -
The Impact of Measuring and Publicizing Teacher Value-Added on Teacher Turnover and School Performance: The Case of Ohio's 2011 Value-Added Pilot Program
Packis, Eleni ( 2018-05 )Research has shown that teacher quality--as measured by the annual test score gains of their students--is an important predictor of students' educational and life outcomes. As a result, teacher evaluation systems increasingly ...