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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.

  • 1559 results in Vassar Scholarship

Is it really the Fisher effect?

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2006-March-01
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Many researchers have used a cointegration approach to test for the Fisher effect. This note argues that the cointegration of the nominal interest rate and the inflation rate is consistent with any theory implying a stationary real interest rate and...

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It's Complicated: Desegregation and Belonging in the Boston Public Schools

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2025-April-21
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This podcast explores desegregation strategies in the Boston Public Schools and how they allow or inhibit families to find belonging. Accompanying podcast episodes 1-5 are linked below as multimedia files.

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Iteratively Linking Words Using Word2Vec and Cosine Similarity

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2020-January-01
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We propose an algorithm that constructs relationships among any number of seed words. A relationship consists of a set of iteratively-generated paths of similar words, where each path links one seed word to another. The similar words are generated using...

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Jake Silva - Media Studies Senior Project- Podcast Script

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2024-April-19
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This podcast explores the history and scholarship of The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight by investigating contradictory research and writing in academia, as well as how the commercial, production practices of both programs shape their content. Political parody TV...

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Jamaica’s Democratic Socialism; Michael Manley’s Model

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2025-May-12
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Democratic Socialism has been widely criticized as being economically and politically
unfeasible. This political ideology has experienced mass support for the promises it pledges in its
inherent dogma of human welfare over profit maximization. It is often pitted against and...

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Kelo, Cuno, and the broken window

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2006-November-26
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In June 2005, the Supreme Court made one of its least popular decisions in recent history. In Kelo v. New London, the Court missed a simple point: that local decision makers make local decisions.

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Korean International Students (yuhaksaengs) in New York City: A phenomenological study on the US college experiences of Korean international students in relation to privilege, class, and race

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2021-January-01
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This study examines the college experiences of Korean international (KI) students who are currently enrolled in U.S. colleges located in New York City (NYC); it attempts to understand and humanize their personal experiences and struggles in the educational sphere before...

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