Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Most studies of family structure and child outcomes conclude that stepchildren fare little better than children in single-parent families, and substantially worse than children in intact families. Is this because adults ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper shows that the WTO's Article XXIV increases the likelihood of free trade, but may worsen world welfare when free trade is not reached and customs unions (CUs) form. We consider a model of many countries. Article ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines inter-generational persistence in child labor by developing a dynamic model and exploring its implications empirically in Brazil. We begin by building a simple overlapping generations model of the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)A positive Lyapunov exponent is one practical definition of chaos. We develop a formal test for chaos in a noisy system based on the consistent standard errors of the nonparametric Lyapunov exponent estimators. When our ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Traditionally, a society's literacy has been measured by the 'literacy rate' or the percent of the adult population that is literate. The present paper maintains that the distribution on literates across households also ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)The Panic of 1837 stands among the most severe banking crises in U.S. history, marking the start of a business downturn from which the nation would not recover for six years. Given the serious consequences of the panic for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1995)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of French and Italian, 2002-03-12)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Abstract: This article provides an overview of the main events in the life of John Harsanyi and a summary of his research on decision-theoretic foundations for utilitarianism, cooperative bargaining theory, games of ...
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(Blackwell Publishers, 2001)
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(Cambridge University Press, 2000)
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(2015-01-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)For years, the Vanderbilt University Holocaust Lecture Series has brought in guest speakers and academic scholars to give presentations on the history of the Holocaust. Begun in 1967 under the direction of Beverly Asbury, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic foundation. The main purpose ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of French and Italian, 1998)
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(Vanderbilt University, 1990)
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(McGill University. Comparative Literature Program, 1989)
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(Mestengo Presshttp://www.uwo.ca/french/MesPresshome/, 2005)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01)This paper reports results from a survey of the labor market experience of the 2001-02 class of Ph.D. economists. We estimate that 850 economics Ph.D.s were awarded by U.S. universities in 2001-02, down about 100 from five ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)