{"id":1683,"date":"2015-12-09T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2015-12-09T22:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:13:38","slug":"alan-branson-defended-his-dissertation-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2015\/12\/09\/alan-branson-defended-his-dissertation-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Branson defended his dissertation proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/04\/Branson_11.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Branson_1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1086 alignleft\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/04\/Branson_11.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"\" width=\"144\" \/><\/a><strong>Alan Branson<\/strong> (PhD student) defended &nbsp;his dissertaton proposal successfully on De.c 9, 2015. He will investigate the trends of payday lending business in Missisippi&nbsp;(title: <strong>Determinants of Payday Lending and Bank Branch Locations in Mississippi<\/strong>).&nbsp;&nbsp;Using the data obtained from &nbsp;MSDBCF, FDIC, Census, he will analyze the location change patterns of&nbsp;the payday lending offices and the bank branches, and examine impacts of the changing patterns&nbsp;to local communities. &nbsp;For his anslysis, he will conduct&nbsp;cross-sectional analysis, OLS &amp; Logit regression analysis, and spatial\/time-series analysis. &nbsp;His findings will&nbsp;generate policy implications for local, state, and federal levels in managing impacts of payday lending business (Advisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/faculty-and-staff\/\">Dr. Jae-Young Ko<\/a>). <strong>&nbsp;Congratulations and Good Luck, Alan.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Branson (PhD student) defended &nbsp;his dissertaton proposal successfully on De.c 9, 2015. He will investigate the trends of payday lending business in Missisippi&nbsp;(title: Determinants of Payday Lending and Bank Branch Locations in Mississippi).&nbsp;&nbsp;Using the data obtained from &nbsp;MSDBCF, FDIC, Census, he will analyze the location change patterns of&nbsp;the payday lending offices and the bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}