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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:49

Senior Recital: Karen Ratcliffe, soprano

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Karen Ratcliffe
Advisors
Libin, Kathryn
Department or Program
Music Department
Location
Martel Recital Hall, Skinner Hall
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Not Reviewed
Performer
David Alpher (piano)
Publication Date
2016-04-02
English
Class Year
2016
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:48

Senior Recital: Gregory Cristina

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Gregory Cristina
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Music Department
Location
Martel Recital Hall, Skinner Hall
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Not Reviewed
Performer
Gregg Michalak (piano)
Publication Date
2016-04-16
English
Class Year
2016
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:48

Senior Recital: Gregory Cristina

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Gregory Cristina
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Music Department
Location
Martel Recital Hall, Skinner Hall
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Gregg Michalak (piano)
Publication Date
2016-04-16
English
Class Year
2016
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:43

Using NAICS to identify national industry cluster templates for applied regional analysis

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Whereas FESER and BERGMAN, 2000, developed the concept of national-level cluster templates and introduced a systematic methodology to identify such clusters, their technique and results were based on the now-outdated Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system for categorizing industries. We update their results using the 1997 Benchmark Input-Output Accounts for the United States, which are based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Since the treatment of services is much more comprehensive under NAICS, we are able to expand on the Feser and Bergman manufacturing templates to identify more comprehensive mixed-sector templates. The cluster templates we determine can provide a foundation for regional economic development strategies.
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Authors
Kelton, Christina M. L.
Margaret K. Pasquale
Rebelein, Robert P.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
working paper
Key Words
Industry Clusters & Linkages; Regional Development Policy
JEL Classification: R10
JEL Classification: R11
JEL Classification: R58
Paper Number
88
Peer Reviewed
Reviewed
Publication Date
2006-12-16
English
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:43

Child brides in India

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This paper investigates the determinants of child marriage using a new data set from rural India. Specifically, we focus on an extreme form of child marriage--that is, the marriage of girls under the age of ten. No other study to our knowledge has examined the factors influencing the likelihood of such early marriage. Our model estimates the relative importance of economic factors and social norms in determining the prevalence of child marriage. Our findings reveal that the probability of a girl becoming married before her 10th birthday is highly correlated with the prevalence of child marriage within her own caste and village, even after controlling for household and village characteristics. Surprisingly, economic variables--such as household income and relative poverty status--do not significantly affect the likelihood of becoming a child bride.
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Authors
Johnson-Lans, Shirley
Patricia Jones
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
working paper
Key Words
Child Marriage
Social influence
Family Economics
Asia
India
JEL Classification: J12
JEL Classification: D83
JEL CLassification: D13
Paper Number
94
Peer Reviewed
Reviewed
Publication Date
2011-01-01
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:43

Do NGOs make a difference: a case study of rural Rajasthan

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An empirical analysis of effects of NGO interventions on health and education of women and girls in rural Rajasthan employs an original micro data set to address criticisms of NGO effectiveness. Isolating the effects of the NGO's programs from personal and household characteristics (caste, religion, income, wealth, landowning status, family composition and literacy) and from village fixed-effects, significant positive effects on women and girls of several indicators of health, knowledge about health, fertility and literacy rates are found. Substitution effects between governmental and NGO services are minimal. The paper also evaluates the cost-effectiveness of the NGO programs.
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Authors
Johnson-Lans, Shirley
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
working paper
Key Words
development
health
Human Capital
women
India
Asia
JEL Classification: F53
JEL Classification: F35
JEL Classification: C73
JEL Classification: O19
Paper Number
93
Peer Reviewed
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Publication Date
2008-07-01
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:42

The political economy of conditionality: an empirical analysis of World Bank Enforcement

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Traditional aid conditionality has been attacked as ineffective in part because aid agencies - notably the World Bank - often fail to enforce conditions. This pattern undermines the credibility of conditionality, weakening incentives to implement policy reforms. The standard critique attributed this time inconsistency to bureaucratic factors within the aid agency such as pressure to lend, defensive lending, or short-sighted altruism. Pressure from powerful donors provides another potential explanation for lax enforcement. This paper presents and empirical analysis of the political economy of conditionality enforcement in international organizations using the case of the World Bank and the United States. The analysis examines panel data on World Bank disbursements to 97 countries receiving structural adjustment loans between 1984 and 2005. Using macroeconomic variables to measure compliance and UN voting as an indicator of alignment with the U.S., this paper presents evidence that the World Bank enforces structural adjustment conditions more vigorously in countries not aligned with the United States.
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Authors
Kilby, Christopher
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
working paper
Key Words
World Bank
Structural Adjustment
Conditionality
United States
JEL Classification: F35
JEL Classification: F53
JEL Classification: F55
JEL Classification: O19
Paper Number
92
Peer Reviewed
Reviewed
Publication Date
2008-01-01
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:42

Mixture models and convergence clubs

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In this paper we argue that modeling the cross-country distribution of per capita income as a mixture distribution provides a natural framework for the detection of convergence clubs. The framework yields tests for the number of component distributions that are likely to have more power than "bump hunting" tests and includes a natural method of assessing the cross-component immobility necessary to imply a correspondence between components and convergence clubs. Applying the mixture approach to cross-country per capita income data for the period 1960 to 2000 we find evidence of three component densities in each of the nine years that we examine. We find little cross-component mobility and so interpret the multiple mixture components as representing convergence clubs. We document a pronounced tendency for the strength of the bonds between countries and clubs to increase. We show that the well-known "hollowing out" of the middle of the distribution is largely attributable to the increased concentration of the rich countries around their component means. This increased concentration as well as that of the poor countries around their component mean produces a rise in polarization in the distribution over the sample period.
N.B.: This article is the preprint for the following:
"Mixture Models, Convergence Clubs and Polarization," 2010, Paul Johnson, Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli, <em>Review of Income and Wealth</em>, 56:102-22.
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Authors
Johnson, Paul A.
Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
working paper
Issue Number
1
Key Words
Convergence Clubs
Economic Growth
Mixture Models
Polarization
JEL Classification: D31
JEL Classification: C14
Page Numbers
102-122
Paper Number
91
Peer Reviewed
Reviewed
Publication Date
2008-01-01
Source Publication
The Review of Income and Wealth
Volume Number
56
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.2009.00365.x
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:42

Stabilizing the international financial system and financing development: an analysis of the Tobin tax

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This paper analyzes the feasibility of an international tax on currency transaction, also known as "Tobin Tax", from an economic and juridical point of view. The claim that such a tax would curb short term speculators, thus stabilizing the foreign exchange market, is discussed. Moreover, the potential revenues of such a tax are evaluated, along with some possible needs these revenues could address: financing developing and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, and global public goods. Part one focuses on the thirty-year-old academic debate sparked by James Tobin's proposal; part two describes the features of an hypothetical Currency Transaction Tax (CTT), while part three analyzes how a CTT could be implemented both within the European Union framework, or more generally through an ad hoc international organization.
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Authors
Edoardo Raviol
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
working paper
Key Words
Tobin Tax
Speculation
Currency Transaction Tax
JEL Classification: K34
JEL Classification: G28
JEL Classification: G38
Paper Number
90
Peer Reviewed
Reviewed
Publication Date
2007-12-01
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:42

Stabilizing the international financial system and financing development: an analysis of the Tobin tax

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This paper analyzes the feasibility of an international tax on currency transaction, also known as "Tobin Tax", from an economic and juridical point of view. The claim that such a tax would curb short term speculators, thus stabilizing the foreign exchange market, is discussed. Moreover, the potential revenues of such a tax are evaluated, along with some possible needs these revenues could address: financing developing and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, and global public goods. Part one focuses on the thirty-year-old academic debate sparked by James Tobin's proposal; part two describes the features of an hypothetical Currency Transaction Tax (CTT), while part three analyzes how a CTT could be implemented both within the European Union framework, or more generally through an ad hoc international organization.
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Authors
Edoardo Raviol
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
working paper
Key Words
Tobin Tax
Speculation
Currency Transaction Tax
development
JEL Classification: K34
JEL Classification: G28
JEL Classification: G38
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Reviewed
Publication Date
2007-12-01
English
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