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Vassar Scholarship

Does post-graduate education affect women's investment in health? A study of the determinants of preventative health

Publication Date
2005-October-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Johnson-Lans, Shirley
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Does the well established positive association between education and investment in health hold for education beyond college? This study examines the effect of having a postgraduate degree on investment in health, using an original data set composed of samples of...

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Vassar Scholarship

Does Speculation Make Commodity Spot Markets More Volatile?

Publication Date
2022-May-02
Authors
Cao, Yixiao Carl
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This paper examines how increased speculator participation in the commodity
futures market affects spot price volatility. Consistent with results from the
majority of existing literature on this subject, I find no evidence that speculators
destabilize the commodity spot market. More...

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Domandi, Mario, 1929-1979 | Memorial Minute:

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Date
November 14, 1979
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Vassar Scholarship

Donor influence in Multilateral Development Banks: the case of the Asian Development Bank

Publication Date
2006-January-19
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Kilby, Christopher
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper explores the influence of Japan and the United States over the geographic distribution of Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds. Although nominally an independent, multilateral organization, the ADB is widely regarded as bowing to the interests of its two...

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The Library Café

Dora Apel

Date
October 13, 2021
Abstract

"The acclaimed art historian and cultural critic, Dora Apel, W. Hawkins Ferry Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University, talks about her recent monograph, Calling Memory Into Place (Rutgers UP, 2020). Her many books include Imagery of Lynching: Black Men

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Dora Apel

Date
October 5, 2022
Abstract

Dora Apel, W. Hawkins Ferry Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University, returns to the program to talk about her book Beautiful, Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015.

"In Beautiful Terrible Ruins

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Downer, Henry Ernest, 1885-1968 | Memorial Minute:

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Date
[After 1968]
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Vassar College Archives Audio Collection

Dr. Shotwell

Imprint
[1945 or 1946?]
Description

Brief comments by James T. Shotwell sometime after April 1945, possibly addressed to a meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, preceded by an introduction by an unnamed speaker

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Dr. Shotwell: Audio disc side 1

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Dr. Shotwell: Audio disc side 2

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Drake, Durant, 1878-1933 | Memorial Minute

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Date
[After 1933]
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