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Volume I
Category: Business, Technology
Posted on: November 17th, 2023
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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Adoption: The Great Cryptocurrency Experiment
JENNIFER TREVINO – NOVEMBER 17TH, 2023 EDITOR: JONATHAN DOMINGUEZ
After much anticipation, Bitcoin City has met its end. The futuristic city was first announced at the 2021 Latin American Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference along with a 10 billion...
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Category: Accounting, Education, Government
Whats Wrong with Student Loans?
MICHAEL SALAZAR – NOVEMBER 25TH, 2023 EDITOR: CECILIA CANTU
While concerns about rising tuition and debt totals are warranted, college is still a good investment on average. In particular, student loans should not be vilified as an option for students who are credit-constrained...
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Posted on: November 25th, 2023
Published by: UTRGVER Staff
2023-2024 Issue | Volume I
UTRGV
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Volume I
In This Issue:
School Competition: An Inattentive Economy
Bennett Smith-Worthington
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“Zoned out of Opportunity”: Causal Effect of Land Use Regulation on Adult Incomes
Ignacio Lopez Gaffney Jr.
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Collective Bargaining and Faculty Composition in Public School Districts: Evidence from California
Ilina Logani
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Assessing German Fiscal Sustainability and Assessing the Effectiveness of the German Debt Brake
Abhimanyu Banerjee
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School Dropout Rates Across Ethnolinguistic Groups in Lao PDR: Examining Minority Group Status and the (Un)likelihood of Dropping Out
Rayna Zhou
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Productive Exporters or Export-Induced Labor Productivity? New Evidence from Egypt
Zhang Zhi
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Africa + China: The Belt and Road Initiative as an Outcome of Defense Policy
SAHIL JAISWAL – NOVEMBER 16TH, 2023 EDITOR: COLE YAP Introduction: From 1.2 Trillion in 2000 to 17.7 Trillion in 2021, China multiplied its GDP by a factor of 15...
The Housing Market Standoff: Why a Crash Isn’t on the Horizon and the Duel Between Supply and Demand
ALKIS TOUTZIARIDIS – NOVEMBER 7TH, 2023 EDITOR: LARA RAMIREZ The health of the housing market, often regarded as the pulse of the economy, is a pivotal component in shaping the...
Boom or Bust For NGOs?: The Effect of Matching Requirements on EPA Non-Profit Grant Recipients
ZAC NARIMANIAN - September 14TH, 2023
Despite their poignant position, however, we know precious little about how to support these organizations’ sustained growth...
The (Not So) Simple Truth Behind Minimum Wages and Unions
ARDA TUNCTURK – November 15, 2023 EDITOR: EVAN DAVIS Imagine you are a worker living paycheck-to-paycheck, working endless hours, or maybe even holding multiple jobs to barely make ends meet...
The Three Players of the Housing Crisis: The Great Recession, COVID-19, & Bidenomics
SANIYA PENDHARKAR – NOVEMBER 15TH, 2023 EDITOR: ANGELA CHEN The housing problems that have affected the United States for years are nothing short of a square off between supply and...
Can you afford kids? The Rising Costs of Children
WRITER: EMMA-JANE BURNS EDITOR: MICHAEL ATHANASSIADIS The average American family can now expect to spend over $300,000 raising a child to the age of 17 before including college tuition. Rising...
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