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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Feminized Automobility: Racing the Car as a Cultural and Technological Artifact

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Eva G. Gray
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

There are very few technologies that have so profoundly shaped society as the automobile has. However, what has been a liberating force for some has been an obstacle for others. Since its inception, the automobile has been imbued with masculine...

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Private school choice and the returns to private schooling

Publication Date
1996-June-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Smith, John Z., Jr.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper analyzes the magnitude of earnings differentials and differences in the rates of return to education for individuals who attended private and public high schools in the U.S. from 1976 to 1983, controlling for self-selection into school sector, as...

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Share-price reaction to supervisory goodwill litigation: The Cal Fed case

Publication Date
2000-February-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Smith, John Z., Jr.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

More than 100 savings and loans are currently involved in supervisory goodwill litigation against the federal government, with total claims approach fifty billion dollars. These claims arise from a provision in the 1989 Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act...

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Temporary employment decisions of registered nurses

Publication Date
1997-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

The decision whether or not to work for a temporary agency was examined using a 1990 cross-section survey of Illinois registered nurses and a model which corrects for the simultaneity between agency choice and wages (and benefits). Conditional on having...

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The determinants of private high school attendance

Publication Date
1996-May-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Smith, John Z., Jr.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper develops a model of private school choice that incorporates measures of the availability and costs of private schooling, as well as the quality of existing public schools, in the local market for secondary education. Using data from the...

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The determinants of private school attendance

Publication Date
1996-May-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Smith, John Z., Jr.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper develops a model of private school choice that incorporates measures of the availability and costs of private schooling, as well as the quality of existing public schools, in the local market for secondary education. Using data from the...

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The effect of temporary nursing services on the supply of labor to nursing

Publication Date
1997-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Do temporary nursing agencies cause labor supply to nursing to be greater or less than it otherwise would be? Using cross-section survey data from 1984, 1988, and 1992, this question is examined within a nine-equation system capable of estimating hours...

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The supply of labor to full-time and part-time nursing

Publication Date
1995-May-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

A model incorporating a discrete full-time/part-time/do not work labor choice and decomposing labor supply into its full-time and part-time components was used to examine the increase in labor supplied by nurses (the increase per nurse on average) over the 1977-88...

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Wealth effects of supervisory goodwill litigation: A portfolio approach

Publication Date
2000-March-18
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Smith, John Z., Jr.
Beauregard, Joshua M.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Using a unique set of publicly-traded litigation certificates, we measure the wealth effects of (largely) unanticipated damage awards in the ongoing supervisory goodwill litigation between thrifts and the federal government. Estimating abnormal returns for portfolios of litigation certificates and retained...

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