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An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Consumer Co-operation in the United States (open access)

An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Consumer Co-operation in the United States

A study of consumer cooperation in the United States relating to education, labor, business, religion, and government.
Date: May 1939
Creator: Davidson, Curtis D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Net Discount Rates Stationary?: Some Further Evidence (open access)

Are Net Discount Rates Stationary?: Some Further Evidence

Article discussing research suggesting that the net discount ration experienced a level shift in the mean between 1977 and 1981 and the resulting possible affects.
Date: September 1994
Creator: Haslag, Joseph H.; Nieswiadomy, Michael L. & Slottje, Daniel J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Net Discount Ratios Stationary?: The Implications For Present Value Calculations (open access)

Are Net Discount Ratios Stationary?: The Implications For Present Value Calculations

Article discussing research analyzing the relationship between real interest rates and real growth rates in wages.
Date: September 1991
Creator: Haslag, Joseph H.; Nieswiadomy, Michael L. & Slottje, Daniel J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bank Failure and Its Causes: A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas. This poster discusses research on bank failure and its causes. The author's research focuses on the primary influences and characteristics of a collapse. The aim is to enable us to deduce common factors that contribute to bank failure, allowing us to reform and prevent collapses.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Huffman, Thomas & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Behavioral Economic Tools for Promotion of Physical Activity

This book chapter describes two key behavioral economic constructs and four key behavioral economic tools and their application to physical activity.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Leonard, Tammy & Shuval, Kerem
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculating Changes in Worklife Expectancies and Lost Earnings in Personal Injury Cases (open access)

Calculating Changes in Worklife Expectancies and Lost Earnings in Personal Injury Cases

Article discussing research on the estimated effect of an injury on a worker's life expectancy, worklife expectancy and discounted expected income.
Date: September 1988
Creator: Nieswiadomy, Michael L. & Silberberg, Eugene
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study (open access)

Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study

This article examines the longitudinal relationship between moving to more socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods and weight gain as a cardiovascular risk factor.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Cooper-McCann, Rebecca; Ayers, Colby; Berrigan, David; Lian, Min; McClurkin, Michael et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cognitive Limits to Economic Cluster (open access)

The Cognitive Limits to Economic Cluster

This article highlights human limits in cluster formation.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Carroll, Michael C. & Zeller, Mark C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complexities of Career Development (open access)

Complexities of Career Development

Paper explores the increasing roles and services provided by career counselors and career development services.
Date: 2006
Creator: Hennes, Sarah E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Conflicts in the American Labor Movement During the 1929 to 1939 Depression Period (open access)

The Conflicts in the American Labor Movement During the 1929 to 1939 Depression Period

This thesis is an examination of organized labor in the United States during the 1930s. Activities of the American Federation of Labor, Industrial Workers of the World, and Congress of Industrial Workers during the decade are compared and contrasted throughout.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Freeman, William H.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defining Neighborhood Boundaries in Studies of Spatial Dependence in Child Behavior Problems (open access)

Defining Neighborhood Boundaries in Studies of Spatial Dependence in Child Behavior Problems

This article extends an analysis of neighborhood effects on child behavioral outcomes.
Date: May 3, 2013
Creator: O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Leonard, Tammy; Beron, Kurt & Murdoch, James
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Do Neighborhoods Matter Differently for Movers and Non-Movers?: Analysis of Weight Gain in the Longitudinal Dallas Heart Study

This article uses data from the Dallas Heart Study to evaluate the relationship between changes in neighborhood condition and weight change for both movers and non-movers over an approximate seven-year follow-up period.
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Ayers, Colby; Das, Sandeep R.; Neeland, Ian J. & Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Does it Pay for Companies to Go Green? A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on whether it pays for companies to go green.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Kniatt, Cheryl & Nieswiadomy, Michael L.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

The economic and environmental benefits of a renewable energy industry in developing economies

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy in developing countries.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Roach, Travis & Nieswiadomy, Michael L.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating the Economic Impact of Universities: The Case of Bowling Green State University (open access)

Estimating the Economic Impact of Universities: The Case of Bowling Green State University

This article describes the results of an economic impact study of Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
Date: 2006
Creator: Carroll, Michael C. & Smith, Bruce W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach (open access)

Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach

This article, proposes a categorical time-varying coefficient translog cost function, where each coefficient is expressed as a nonparametric function of a categorical time variable, thereby allowing each time period to have its own set of coefficients.
Date: October 24, 2018
Creator: Feng, Guohua; Gao, Jiti & Zhang, Xiaohui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

For-Profit Versus Nonprofit Microfinance: How are the poor affected? [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on for-profit and nonprofit microfinance and how the poor are affected.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Weinberg, Brian R.; McPherson, Michael & Cox, Gloria C.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Foreclosed and Sold: An Examination of Community and Property Characteristics Related to the Sale of REO Properties

This article uses foreclosure data from Dallas County, Texas to examine how both housing and neighborhood characteristics are related to the possibility of the sale of a foreclosed property out of real-estate-owned (REO) stock.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Zhang, Lei; Leonard, Tammy & Dias, Resha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South (open access)

GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South

This article analyzes public points of interconnection of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) in the global North versus the global South to determine the degree to which their location preferences differ.
Date: December 14, 2021
Creator: Rosa, Fernanda R. & Hauge, Janice A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geospatial and Contextual Approaches to Energy Balance and Health (open access)

Geospatial and Contextual Approaches to Energy Balance and Health

This article examines associations between geographic and contextual features of the environment and elements of human energy balance, with a particular focus on research and opportunities in the United States.
Date: March 13, 2015
Creator: Berrigan, David; Hipp, J. Aaron; Hurvitz, Philip M.; James, Peter; Jankowska, Marta M.; Kerr, Jacqueline et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Behavior and Behavioral Economics: Economic Preferences and Physical Activity Stages of Change in a Low-Income African American Community (open access)

Health Behavior and Behavioral Economics: Economic Preferences and Physical Activity Stages of Change in a Low-Income African American Community

This article examines the relationship between physical activity stages of change and preferences for financial risk and time.
Date: June 7, 2012
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Shuval, Kerem; de Oliveira, Angela; Sugg Skinner, Celette; Eckel, Catherine & Murdoch, James
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Housing Upkeep and Public Good Provision in Residential Neighborhoods (open access)

Housing Upkeep and Public Good Provision in Residential Neighborhoods

This article uses the consideration of neighborhood condition as an impure public good for a theoretical basis to understand how the level of neighborhood quality may affect residents' home maintenance decisions.
Date: July 27, 2015
Creator: Leonard, Tammy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of COVID-19 Shocks on Business and GDP of Global Economy (open access)

The Impact of COVID-19 Shocks on Business and GDP of Global Economy

Article examines the relationship between COVID-19 shocks and GDP loss of different countries worldwide based on the seven scenarios of the epidemiological DSGE/CGE model. Their results reveal that the most significant GDP loss is associated with Japan, Germany, and the US, respectively, which are industrialized countries with the most prominent automobile manufacturers.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Ahangar, Reza Gharoie & Kim, Myungsup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on Residential Property Upkeep (open access)

The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on Residential Property Upkeep

This article assesses the impact of housing market conditions on the theoretically motivated and empirically observed negative relationship between loan to value ratios and home maintenance expenditures.
Date: July 15, 2011
Creator: Leonard, Tammy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library