Economics
Economic Statistics
One of the leading questions in public education is what factors contribute a significant amount to the graduation rate of high school students. That is, if there were to be a focus on altering factors that positively or negatively affect graduation, what factors would those be and what impact may occur when they are changed? In this paper, multiple factors and their effects on high school graduation rates in the state of Maryland are analyzed using multiple regression. The factors found to have a significant correlation with graduation rates were the Attendance Rate, Percentage Qualifying for Free/Reduced Meals, and AP Scores.
Econometrics
There have been many questions over whether or not loans given out by entities such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, have an impact on the countries which receive the loans. The main question is if the impact has been positive, improving the country’s economy and social well-being, which then also raises the concern over the opposite, that there is a negative impact. In this paper, the impact of receiving a loan, a country’s population size, and its unemployment rate on a country’s GDP per capita are investigated using a fixed effects regression model.