I am a senior Marketing major, and I wanted to incorporate what I have learned the past four years into my honors project. Acting as a consultant to a local non-profit here in Rhode Island, I developed a marketing plan to help The Welcome House target their local affluent community. The mission...

This paper studied the giving patterns of Filipino evangelicals and what the implications of these giving patterns are in developing fund raising strategies of evangelical non-government organization (NGOs) in the Philippines. The main methodology used by the study was a random survey of...

This paper explains the proliferation of consulting activities in nonprofit organizations, and illustrates it by a study of the external consultancies commissioned by one religious/charitable organization (RCO) within a twelve-month period. The qualitative study, conducted over one year,...

Strategic communications planning is a vital part of numerous successful and efficient organizations, yet it is often times an avoided topic of discussion in other organizations. It is common for businesses to see communication planning as a task that will only be touched upon once immediate,...

Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dänemark haben von Wissenschaft und Politik in den letzten Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, da das kleine Land als erfolgreicher Wohlfahrtsstaatsmodernisierer gilt. Das dänische Beschäftigungswunder wird dabei als Gegenentwurf zu einer Politik...

Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...

In this paper we study the quantitative properties of a policy reform aimed at funding the pension system in the standard model economy with perfect substitution across workers with different experience levels and a model economy where this substitutability is imperfect. With compulsory...

Este trabajo estima el efecto agregado dinámico de shocks exógenos a dos componentes clave del gasto público en Estados Unidos, las transferencias de renta y el gasto gubernamental en bienes y servicios. La estrategia de identificación instrumenta los shocks estructurales al gasto público...