Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Cambridge University Press, 1998)
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(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2000-04)Through a critical reading of the mass mediated discourse that arose in the wake of the John/Joan or "twins" case, this analysis investigates contemporary iterations of gender performativity, gendered morals and feminism. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)This research examines the reaction of students at Vanderbilt University to the Vietnam War during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency. Vanderbilt's student-run newspaper The Vanderbilt Hustler provides insight into the opinions ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Johns Hopkins University Presshttp://www.press.jhu.edu/, 1975)
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)China today is a rising superpower and a major challenger to American hegemony. The industrialization and modernization that other nations achieved in centuries, China has compressed to a few decades. Indeed, all too often, ...
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(2015-01-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, 1993)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003-11)
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(Vanderbilt Universityhttp://authorities.loc.gov/, 2006-09)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2004)Sections 8(a)(3) and 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act prohibit a firm from unilaterally increasing the wage it pays the union during the negotiation of a new wage contract. To understand this regulation, we study ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper, I examine the sources of wage inequality changes among prime age male workers in Brazil during the 1980's and 1990's. Inequality increased in the 1980's and decreased in the 1990's. I begin by decomposing ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)We develop a discrete or finite household model with congestable local public goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously determined in a purely normative context. ...
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(Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [etc.], 1824)
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(Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [etc.], 1824)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We examine the driving forces of G-7 business cycles. We decompose national business cycles into common and nation-specific components using a dynamic factor model. We also do this for driving variables found in business ...
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(McGill University. Comparative Literature Program, 1993)
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(Oxford University Presshttp://www.oup.com, 1988)"Open-ended questions are frequently used by survey researchers to measure public opinion. Some scholars, however, have doubts about how accurately these kinds of questions measure the views of the public. A chief concern ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)Abstract: What tangible benefit do universities who participate in major televised sports achieve from their commitment? The essay reviews the evidence on the gains in public funding, attraction of philanthropy, increases ...