Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

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.

The Legacy of Colonization, The Damage of Gentrification, The Strength of Community: Examining Displacing Phenomena Throughout History in the City of Brotherly Love

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2023-April-30
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The aim of this project is to interrogate these processes, to examine how gentrification is impacting the firmly rooted Black community of North Central Philadelphia, to examine how colonization impacted and continues to affect Indigenous and marginalized residents of the...

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The United States Education System and Intergenerational Income Mobility

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2015-January-01
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This study intends to determine some of the avenues through which parent income affects child income and if the public education system has the potential to increase income mobility and equalize economic opportunity. I find that the income elasticity between...

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