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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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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Reproductive Inequity among Incarcerated Black Women

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Danielle Quick Holmes
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

In my thesis, I will argue that Black incarcerated women face increased reproductive disparities as a result of their multiple marginalized identities. Even though Black women have the fastest growth rate of incarceration there is minimal evidence on how imprisonment...

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Stabilizing the international financial system and financing development: an analysis of the Tobin tax

Publication Date
2007-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Edoardo Raviol
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper analyzes the feasibility of an international tax on currency transaction, also known as "Tobin Tax", from an economic and juridical point of view. The claim that such a tax would curb short term speculators, thus stabilizing the foreign...

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Stabilizing the international financial system and financing development: an analysis of the Tobin tax

Publication Date
2007-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Edoardo Raviol
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper analyzes the feasibility of an international tax on currency transaction, also known as "Tobin Tax", from an economic and juridical point of view. The claim that such a tax would curb short term speculators, thus stabilizing the foreign...

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