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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.

Growth econometrics

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2004-October-22
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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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Homer's Odyssey: A Sampling of Editions in English 1616-2017

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2018-January
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HOMER’S ODYSSEY A Sampling of Editions in English 1616–2017 An Exhibition. Vassar College Library, 2018. The following students of GRST 289/MEDS 289 in the Fall of 2017 served as co-curators: Sydney Amspacher, Sarah Baer, Gabriella Caballero, Daisy Catling-Allen, Jack Kenney...

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Social capability and economic development

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1996-November-01
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The conventional wisdom is that postwar economic growth has been unpredictable. In the 1960s few observers accurately forecast which countries would grow quickly. In this paper we show that indexes of social development constructed in the early 1960s have considerable...

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