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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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A test of normality assumption in the ordered probit model

Publication Date
1995-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Johnson, Paul A.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper presents an easily implemented test of the assumption of a normally distributed error term for the ordered probit model. As this assumption is the central maintained hypothesis in all estimation and testing based on this model, the test...

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Convergence and growth amongst rich and poor

Publication Date
1992-March-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Chatterji, Monojit
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper reexamines the Baumol-Wolff (1988) hypothesis that there exists an exclusive international Convergence Club of rich nations whose members will move nearer each other with the passage of time. We argue that the Baumol-Wolff analysis does not really justify...

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Temporary employment decisions of registered nurses

Publication Date
1997-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

The decision whether or not to work for a temporary agency was examined using a 1990 cross-section survey of Illinois registered nurses and a model which corrects for the simultaneity between agency choice and wages (and benefits). Conditional on having...

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The effect of temporary nursing services on the supply of labor to nursing

Publication Date
1997-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Do temporary nursing agencies cause labor supply to nursing to be greater or less than it otherwise would be? Using cross-section survey data from 1984, 1988, and 1992, this question is examined within a nine-equation system capable of estimating hours...

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The sexual division of leadership in volunteer emergency medical squads

Publication Date
1992-August-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Thompson III, Alexander M.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This article reports on theoretical and empirical research that explored the hypothesis that there is a sexual division of leadership in volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) squads. This hypothesis was tested against survey data obtained from 216 current members of...

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The supply of labor to full-time and part-time nursing

Publication Date
1995-May-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

A model incorporating a discrete full-time/part-time/do not work labor choice and decomposing labor supply into its full-time and part-time components was used to examine the increase in labor supplied by nurses (the increase per nurse on average) over the 1977-88...

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Volunteer emergency squads and their communities: A demographic comparison

Publication Date
1992-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Thompson III, Alexander M.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This research compares the personal, household, and professional characteristics volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) providers in Ulster County, NY with those of the general population of this rural upstate county, using a survey instrument implemented by the author in conjunction...

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Volunteers and their communities: A comparative analysis of volunteer firefighters

Publication Date
1992-August-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Thompson III, Alexander M.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This article explores the multifaceted relationship between volunteer fire companies and their communities by examining a broad range of socioeconomic characteristics of volunteer fire fighters and general residents in rural New York State. The two data sets are generated by...

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