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Item The Impacts Entrepreneurship has on Economic Growth in Georgia, New Mexico, Kentucky Counties(2016) Zhang, Qianyu; Nene, GibsonThe study is primary analyzing the impacts that entrepreneurship have on economic growth in Georgia, New Mexico and Kentucky counties between 2010 and 2012. The three states form 313 counties altogether. Economic growth in a given county can be measured by looking at the growth rate of personal per capita income, and the eight control variables include education, government spending, per capita income, unemployment, white population, rural dummy and farm dummy variable. The variables of interest are firm, establishments and employment at all sizes less than 500, which composed 15 models in terms of different firm, establishment and employment sizes. The results of this study present clear relationships between the control variables and economic growth. Farm-based counties and personal per capita income are positively related to economic growth; while government spending and population density are inversely related to economic growth. These coefficients of the variables are statistically significant and robust to all models. The coefficients for rest of the variables are not statistically significant, which means that they cannot be used to explain the economic growth in the specific period of this study.Item International Scholarship Programs and Home Country Economic and Social Development: Comparing Georgian and Moldovan Alumni Experiences of Giving Back""(2016-05) Campbell, AnneInternational higher education scholarships have been viewed as effective tools for the development of low- and middle-income countries. The implied logic is that a country’s top students gain knowledge overseas and return to “give back” to their home countries, thereby spurring economic and social change. This comparative study examined the ways that alumni of international scholarship programs perceive their experiences of “giving back” to their home countries following their Master’s studies in the United States, with a focus on comparing the experiences of program participants from the Republics of Georgia and Moldova. Based on interviews with 20 alumni from each country – across a range of programs, years of participation, and U.S. host universities – this qualitative study found that Georgian and Moldovan alumni had different experiences in their attempts to “give back” and that these experiences were influenced by the specific contextual factors of the home country. Differences between countries included alumni rate of return to their home country, types of employment sought, and varied perceptions of “giving back” based on location of residence (living in the country compared to living overseas). In terms of home country contextual factors that influence scholarship program graduates, two factors emerged as having a significant sway on how alumni perceived their contributions to national development: 1) national government reform and revolution (including government salaries, the workplace culture, and the level of perceived corruption), and 2) the number and vibrancy of alumni networks. These findings are intended to provide greater insight into the experiences of scholarship program alumni and to aid program funders, administrators, and alumni themselves in better understanding the relationship between international scholarship programs and economic and social change in the students’ home countries, with an ultimate goal of building better programs and setting realistic expectations for program success.Item Review of Georgia's Rural Intersection Crashes: Application of Methodology for Identifying Intersections for Intersection Decision Support (IDS)(Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2007-07) Preston, Howard; Storm, Richard; Donath, Max; Shankwitz, CraigThe Intersection Decision Support (IDS) research project is sponsored by a consortium of states (Minnesota, California, and Virginia) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) whose objective is to improve intersection safety. The Minnesota team's focus is to develop a better understanding of the causes of crashes at rural unsignalized intersections and then develop a technology solution to address the cause(s). In the original study, a review of Minnesota's rural crash records and of past research identified poor driver gap selection as a major contributing cause of rural intersection crashes. Consequently, the design of the rural IDS technology has focused on enhancing the driver's ability to successfully negotiate rural intersections by communicating information about the available gaps in the traffic stream to the driver. In order to develop an IDS technology that has the potential to be nationally deployed, the regional differences at rural intersections must first be understood. Only then can a universal solution be designed and evaluated. To achieve this goal of national consensus and deployment, the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Transportation initiated a State Pooled Fund study, in which nine states are cooperating in intersection-crash research. This report documents the crash analysis phase of the pooled fund study for the State of Georgia.