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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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Marginal Revenue Products of Collegiate Basketball Players: What's March Madness Worth to Your Team?

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Nicholas K.S Johnson
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Basketball is considered a revenue sport within the context of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The annual March Madness tournament brings in over a billion dollars in advertising revenue alone. This is just one illustration of the influx of...

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Political Regime and Corruption Control: Information Quality and an Optimal Mechanism

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

Different political regimes have principals that possess different in- formation regarding agents' behavior. This paper studies how this difference affects the comparative efficiency of corruption control between a democratic regime and an authoritarian regime. We ob- serve that such comparative...

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

Publication Date
2023-April-30
Authors
Ziegler, Henry
Department or Program
Urban Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

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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