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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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Shifting Gears: Approaches to Bicycle Activism in New York City

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Isabel Deixel
Department or Program
Urban Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis aims to identify the different mechanisms at play within varying types of bicycle activism in New York City. Through an examination of three case studies – a grassroots group, a non-profit organization, and an institutional program – I...

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Shifting music culture in the age of streaming

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Greenspan, Benjamin
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

This thesis investigates why music streaming services are so popular, beyond their affordability, and the ways in which streaming is shifting music culture. Certain aspects of listening culture which we tend to understand as originating from streaming services, specifically the...

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Shirley Jones and the Red Hen Press

Publication Date
2013
Authors
Patkus, Ronald
Antonetti, Martin
Gallagher, Connell B.
Jones, Shirley
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Exhibition Catalog
Access Level
Open
Abstract

A bibliography by Ronald D. Patkus with commentary by the artist. Published on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Red Hen Press, to accompany exhibitions in the libraries of the following institutions:
Vassar College: Spring 2013
University of...

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Short selling behavior when fundamentals are known: Evidence from NYSE closed-end funds

Publication Date
2006-January-11
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Flynn, Sean M.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

The larger a closed-end fund's premium over its portfolio value, the more intensely it is sold short. However, the intensity of short selling affects neither the rate at which premia mean revert to fundamental values nor the rate of return...

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Social capability and economic development

Publication Date
1996-November-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Johnson, Paul A.
Temple, Jonathan R. W.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

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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Social Change, Narrative Adaptation, and Homophobia: Comparing Two Late-12th-Century Adaptations of Ami and Amile in Old French

Publication Date
2025-May-15
Authors
Cooke, Justyn
Department or Program
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

My thesis investigates two versions of a popular literary legend of the Middle Ages, Ami and Amile, in the context of the growing clerical intolerance for homoeroticism (“sodomy”) in the twelfth century and afterward. The versions of Ami and Amile...

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Social Networks and Social Welfare Disparities Among Sexual Minorities

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Dahlia Forte
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Currently there is a deficit in economics literature on the labor market outcomes of sexual minorities. Previous studies have provided evidence that homosexual and bisexual individuals endure worse mental and physical health, and lesbian women excluded, face wage penalties associated...

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