Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Title
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Equity & The Discount Rate in Climate Change Economics
The focus of this research seeks to determine the best practices in determining climate change mitigation policies, and will focus on the role of the discount rate. A robust debate surrounding the practice of discounting ... -
The Essential Poverty of the Face: A Case for Levinasian Responsibility and Justice in Poverty Studies
The moral deliberative theories that ethicists and justice advocates use to address poverty issues all stem from the analytic philosophical tradition, and, while no doubt helpful, they are not fully adequate. Emmanuel ... -
The Ethical Implications of Juvenile Detention Centers and the Role of Mental Health and Education in Reducing Recidivism
. . . If the nationally accepted [juvenile detention] system continues in the path it is headed on, the recidivism will continue to rise. Due to a lack of funding and often severe over-crowding, it is difficult to assist ... -
The Ethics of CRISPR: What We Can Do vs. What We Should Do
This research has two components. First, an extensive review of the primary and secondary literature on CRISPR [Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats] takes place. To begin speculating on the normative ... -
Examining Effective Altruism as a Moral Guide to Alleviating Human Suffering
The individualistic nature of the effective altruism approach limits its capacity to adequately address needless human suffering caused by poverty. Its extreme position argues that one's personal choices on consumption and ... -
Examining Opportunity Zones by Looking at Enterprise Zones of the Past
The use of tax breaks to improve regions has an interesting and elaborate history. This paper goes through the creation of the concept, its past in America and the new national additions of opportunity zones in nine parts. ... -
Excessive Individualism and the Rhetoric of Poverty: How Personal Responsibility and Dependency Do Not Teach a Man to Fish
We live in a world where institutions can't be trusted, individualism is one of the highest shared values, and we miss a sense of community. How does this atmosphere and outlook on life affect our discussion of poverty? ... -
Exclusionary Zoning and Justice: Concentrated Disadvantage, Intergenerational Poverty, Persistent Legality
Zoning laws—laws that govern what can and cannot be done with land in America—are found in nearly every major US city. First adopted in 1916 by New York City, they were a way for cities to regulate the exposure of their ... -
Execution Workers Mental Health Policy Recommendation
Conversations around the Death Penalty often focus on its morality and concepts such as retribution and deterrence. This paper considers the people who perform executions and how their work impacts them. Execution workers ... -
Expanding Immigrant Access to Welfare: A Moral Obligation
Immigrants who arrive in the United States illegally have no access to federal benefits at all, relying mostly on charity and emergency health care services. The proposed reform, however, would move many of these illegal ... -
Expanding the Effects of "The Great Equalizer": Schools as Health Centers in Low-Access Rural Communities
Poor children in rural communities face numerous barriers to health care access. School-based health centers (SBHCs) are a potential solution to health care access disparities and may have larger effects on health outcomes ... -
The Expansion of Tayssir CCT Program: Increasing Girls' Secondary Educational Attainment in Rural Morocco
This paper examines ways in which the conditional cash transfer program Tayssir can help increase girls' secondary school attainment in rural areas of Morocco. Currently, the Tayssir program only targets children at the ... -
The Exploitation of Legal, Temporary Workers in the United States
The population of legal temporary workers has fluctuated at different points in U.S. history, but their work conditions have remained almost universally abysmal. Historical patterns of employer behavior and political policy ... -
Exploring Challenges to Nonprofit Engagement in Advocacy
Existing literature on nonprofit advocacy focuses on which environmental or organizational factors influence whether nonprofits engage in advocacy, as well as whether their advocacy influences change. This paper explores ... -
Exploring Community Trends in Juvenile Justice
This study examines the need and effectiveness of alternative rehabilitative services for juvenile delinquents in the Rockbridge County school system and juvenile justice system. We believe that juvenile delinquency has ... -
Exploring Obesity In Rockbridge County
Obesity as an illness is misunderstood. The common misconception is that obesity is an individual's problem and that obesity stems only from irresponsible nutrition. Evidence reveals that the reality of obesity as a disease ... -
Exploring the Implications of the Informal Sector: Drawing on Personal Experiences in Ghana and Research on Peru
Ultimately, the informal sector refers to the individuals and organizations that operate outside the scope of the legal system. Because the informal sector does not have strict entry barriers, essentially anyone can ... -
Fair Opportunity in Affordable Housing: How the Judicial Remedy in Gautreaux Informed Antipoverty Policy
We should be particularly concerned with relative deprivation in fair housing—the differences between the ghetto and the suburbs—because relativity shows us how inequalities prevent full participation in society.13 According ... -
Family Formation Among Single Mothers in Jamaica
Teenage pregnancy in Jamaica is a development issue because its effects are felt in every facet of the society. The mother’s ability to care for her child both financially and emotionally is severely limited. The effects ... -
Fatherlessness, A Look at One of America's Most Pervasive Social Problems
Despite the increasing prevalence and negative consequences associated with fatherlessness in America, very few policies or community resources have been effectively dispatched to combat this social issue. However, after ...