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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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Do Immigrant Inflows Affect Native Location Decisions?

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kevin Behan
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between immigrant inflows and native outflows in US metropolitan areas, using data from the Current Population Survey during the period from 2005-2014. Simple linear regression suggests a significant positive effect of immigrant population growth on...

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Growth econometrics

Publication Date
2004-October-22
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Durlauf, Steven N.
Johnson, Paul A.
Temple, Jonathan R. W.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous...

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Word Play: An Interactive Response to Loneliness

Publication Date
2024-May-12
Authors
Gomez, B
Department or Program
Art Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Like most people, I’ve struggled with loneliness and everything that comes with it. The depression, the anxiety, the social ineptitude, the non-interaction; I’ve seen it all, babey, and I wanted to make art in response. Not art that wallowed in...

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