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The Developing Economist

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The Developing Economist is an undergraduate economics research journal published annually at The University of Texas at Austin. The journal’s mission is to publish outstanding undergraduate research in the fields of Economics, Mathematics, Political Economy, Finance, and Public Policy, while fostering a dialogue between students and scholars of economics across all levels of academia. The journal is managed by a team of dedicated undergraduate students, and edited with the help of graduate students and faculty members at UT-Austin.

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2016 - VOL. 3 NO. 1

Economics » Finance

Executive Compensation at Credit Unions

This study is the first to examine credit union executive pay using compensation information from IRS Form 990. Using OLS, logistic, and tobit regression analysis to identify the determinants of base and bonus compensation of chief executive officers (CEOs), this paper finds evidence of misaligned incentives between CEOs and the institutions' member-owners{ although caution is needed when trying to reach firm conclusions because of the limits of the study. Higher fees and lower dividend payments...

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Economics » Higher Education

An Econometric Analysis of the Major Choice of First-Generation College Students

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I estimate a multinomial logit choice model for the college major decisions of first-generation college students|students who are the first in the families to attend college|and non-first-generation students. The model controls for other factors such as sex, race, ability, and family income to isolate the effect of first-generation status on major choice for two otherwise identical students. I find that first-generation college students...

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Economics » Marijuana Legalization

How Does Medical Marijuana Legalization Affect the Number of Marijuana Users? An Inclusion and Examination of Different Age Groups

This paper studies the effect of medical marijuana legalization on the number of marijuana users in a given state's general population. To measure the number of marijuana users in each state, I used survey data that covers multiple years. Given this data, I used a differences-in-differences model to see if the changes in marijuana use over time in legalized states are signi ficantly different from those in non-legalized states. While my initial results showed that legalization significantly increases...

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Criminology & Criminal Justice » Crime Rates

The Effect of a 311 Vacant Building Call on Crime Rates

It is generally accepted among researchers that incidence of crime is on average higher around vacant and abandoned properties because they can serve as safe havens for criminal activity. However, there has been little research investigating the effect of government intervention to rehabilitate vacant and abandoned properties on crime rates. We examine whether crime is reduced in Chicago near vacant and abandoned buildings after the city receives a service request call notifying them that the building...

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Economics » Environmental Economics