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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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Asset depletion among the poor: Does gender matter? The case of urban households in Thailand

Publication Date
2004-July-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Maria S. Floro
Antonopoulos, Rania
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

The paper analytically and empirically examines the issue of gender inequality in household wealth in the form of tangible assets among urban poor households Thailand. It seeks to answer the following questions: (1) is there a gendered pattern of asset...

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In search of belonging: first generation, low-income students navigating financial, bureaucratic, and academic experiences at Vassar

Publication Date
2017-September-01
Document Type
report
Authors
Rueda, Eréndira
Ballard, Tamar
Magdaleno, Lisset
Majarali, Victoria
Gonzalez, Kayla
Gutierrez, Alan
Juanita Herrera
Jasmine Martinez
Molina, Henry
Walker, Akili
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Report
Abstract

A qualitative report on the experiences of first-generation, low income students at Vassar College. This report is the culmination of the Transitions Research Project.

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Sensual Spaces: When experience meets architecture and art

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Zwiebel, Sasha
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Space is inherently embodied–to be in space one must physically, three-dimensionally, encounter it. But what would happen if the sensory, affective, embodied human was at the center of spatial design? What would be the role of the senses and how...

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Textbook: the sitcom, "Louie", and the French New Wave

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Cristian Uriostegui
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

It is through visual storytelling style, Francois Truffaut believed, that a director's expressive tendencies could be seen, imprinting a work with their signature style. In the world of television, collaboration is key and production's industrial processes tend to erase the...

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