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Escapes (2023-07-14)Department: Creative WritingThis thesis tells the story of its principle character's return to his hometown in the aftermath of his father's health crisis. It has been two years since Tristan visited his family in Central Florida, and his return ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-04-03)The ESL Capstone Portfolio demonstrates my understanding of teaching English as second language during my two-year English Language Learners Program (the ELL Program) at Vanderbilt University. I believe that communicative ...
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(2013-11-27)Department: FrenchThis dissertation investigates the relationship between language and space in the work of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and in the work of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). The methodology ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation traces contemporary theories perceiving the border as an abstract concept mostly defined by migration and crossing processes between Mexico and the United States. My purpose is to decentralize and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-14)
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(Minnesota Law Review, 1987)This essay has suggested, through review of two recent works, how toleration theory can and cannot be used to provide a viable alternative to both moribund liberal ideas and the increasingly successful program of the new ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: EconomicsImproving population health, educating adolescents, and reducing crime rates are all goals that economists and policy makers share. To practice evidence-based decision making, policy makers must be informed about how ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: EconomicsChoosing college and field of study is important as it shapes individuals' earnings, working conditions, and lifestyles. Economists are interested in knowing determinants of education decisions, how various mechanisms and ...
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(2015-06-08)Department: EconomicsMicroeconomic factors are getting more attention by macro economists as potential indicators and driving forces of macroeconomic conditions. In the first chapter, I employ a modified version of the long run risk model and ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three essays related to consumer financial issues of often struggling and low-income populations. The first chapter studies the joint use of payday loans and pawnshop loans. While these two ...
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(2007-06-25)Department: ManagementThis dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter examines the valuation effect of information asymmetry and the role of financial intermediaries as information gathering and processing experts. In a sample of ...
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(2013-08-05)Department: ManagementThe dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay finds that corporate giving is associated with CEO characteristics, but not with measures of firms most likely to benefit in terms of increased profitability. This ...
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(2012-05-18)Department: ManagementThis dissertation uses forced CEO turnover events to provide new evidence on three important questions in finance and economics. Chapter one studies the causal relation between board structure and effectiveness of internal ...
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(2006-06-30)Department: EconomicsA widely accepted feature of financial markets across the world is that there are limits to access credit. While this problem is extremely acute at times of economic crisis and recession, it is also prevalent at times of ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: EconomicsChapter 1 of this dissertation is titled “Social Security Eligibility and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Administrative Data”. I estimate the impact of Social Security receipt and retirement on healthcare utilization ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three essays in health economics and policy. In the first essay, “Health Insurance Take-up Among the Near-Elderly in the Age of the Affordable Care Act,” I pair the exogenous transition of ...
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(2015-07-01)Department: EconomicsExcessive alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking are two activities that may have large negative impacts on health. Countless laws and research have focused on these activities because of the severity of their outcomes. ...
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(2018-06-15)Department: EconomicsTrade reform is an important policy tool as it: governs access to foreign markets and the organization of global supply chains; influences international trade flows; and has implications for consumer welfare in a given ...
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(2022-05-26)Department: EconomicsIn this dissertation, I investigate two obstacles that a firm faces in the international market. The first is financial frictions, which limit the amount of financing that a firm can access. The second obstacle is uncertainty ...