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Browsing Honours Theses by Thesis (Discipline) "Economics"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This study links findings from previous literature on (a) effects of family income and socioeconomic status (SES) and related family and community influences on child and youth development and mental health (b) child and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Over the past couple of decades, rising oil prices have had a positive impact on the alternative energy industry because of the substitution effect. In a society that is growingly concerned about environmental sustainability, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This is the first study to use the crime-housing price relationship to attempt to measure the economic cost of crime within a Canadian context. The City of Vancouver, which is home to Canada’s hottest real estate market, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Voter turnout rates for Canadian federal elections have been in decline for over 50 years, and currently Canada is ranked 18th among OECD countries in this regard. To what extent do certain socioeconomic factors have in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Nowadays, technology is a necessity for people because it serves a variety of functions in the modern society and has improved significantly the living standards compared to what they were 100 years ago. Although a lot of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)What role, if any, can financial technology adoption play in determining the capital structure and growth of financial markets? This thesis analyzes the dynamics of cross-country capital market development by examining ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This study examines the unemployment rates of Canadians comparing men and women, immigrants (any foreign-born Canadians) and native born Canadians to see if there are any groups that are more sensitive than their counterparts ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The aim of this study is to measure the impact that individuals’ health and human capital has on their Income. We also want to measure the impact on income when health and human capital are interacting together. Using the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)I analyze the impact of diagnosed mental health disorders and mental health services on peoples’ potential to work by using the Canadian Community Health Survey, 2012: Mental Health Component. I use mood and anxiety disorders ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis addresses the effects of seventeen chronic health conditions as defined by the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey on labour market outcomes as measured by their labour force status: employed full-time, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)This thesis analyzes the levels of marine debris on the coastline of Southwest Nova Scotia and draws possible conclusions for the observed degree of pollution. The plentiful stocks of lobster, scallop, herring, and other ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Since 1990 the share of the U.S. population claiming no religion has more than doubled. This paper analyzes the causes of this “secular boom” using the conception of religious organizations as informal insurance providers. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Undernutrition in very young children can have long lasting effects for them personally, as well as for the economy that is impacted by their lowered human capital formation. Despite its higher than average undernutrition ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)At first, this study was going to analyze Canadian youth aging out of the foster care system, but due to the fact that there is no national dataset compiled, this was not possible. Using national data from the United States ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Inter-provincial migration is an important subject because it shapes the population size, demographic composition, social and cultural characteristics of each province. It not only affects the province of origin but also ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The Government of Canada will spend $20.1 billion over the next ten years, through the Budget 2017, to improve public transit infrastructure in Canada. Previous literature shows that public transit can reduce traffic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The following honours thesis analyzes a database of reported car accidents with a total of 381,409 observations. The database compiled by the insurance company “La Boliviana Ciacruz S.A” has a timeline of 10 years from ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The following honours thesis compiles a dataset of reported concussions in the National Hockey League for the 2014-2015, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017 seasons. The main purpose of the thesis is data collection for a further ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This thesis investigates the effects of sovereign credit default spreads and the national current account balance on the health of a country’s banking sector as measured by the Bank Z-score. To this end, we use a cross-country ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)To investigate the variables that relate to obesity and the relation between those variable and its alternative when it comes to obesity. By using the data from 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and apply logistic ...
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