Browsing by Subject "Brazil"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper we examine intra-household gender differences and the incidence of child labor and children¬πs school attendance in Brazil to test whether the unitary model of household allocations is suitable in the child ...
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(2014-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesI investigated the stereotypes of Brazilians identified as black using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods–unobtrusive observation, 12 informal interviews, and a content analysis of 33 newspaper issues ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Evidence from the psychology and sociology literature suggests that earlier-born children tend to ...
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(2015-03-24)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the role that children of color played in Brazil’s transition from slavery into the post-emancipation era. I explore the themes of law, family, gender, race, and labor using tutelage legal documents ...
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(2011-04-18)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis evaluates the impact of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, Bolsa Família, on educational outcomes with special attention to student performance. In Brazil, CCTs in education first appeared ...
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(2009-07-25)Department: EnglishThis study focuses on seven canonical filmmakers of the 1960s: Fernando Birri, Stan Brakhage, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Glauber Rocha, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, and Andy Warhol. By reading their manifestos and ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: Political ScienceOver the last two decades, Latin American countries have adopted conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs as their primary means of providing social assistance to their citizens living in poverty. Political scientists have ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: HistoryThe development of Brazilian public health in the nineteenth century provides a fresh perspective on Brazilian state building. This dissertation examines the role of public engagement in the evolving nature of state policies ...
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(2013-07-15)Department: SpanishThis dissertation uses theoretical models of cultural studies to examine social factors that contribute to the development of the novel in early modern Spain and beyond. Documents from the conquest of the Americas provide ...
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(2006-08-01)Department: Latin American StudiesSince 1871, approximately 150,000 Syrians and Lebanese have immigrated to Brazil, struggling to preserve their Arabic culture and identity even as they have assimilated to Brazilian society. Previous scholars have ...
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(2014-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesThis paper creates a contextualized narrative of the history of Amazonian development projects. This project will examine understandings and representations of nature and the Amazon, and how these representations, and their ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)The paper estimates the impact on school attendance and child labor of conditional cash payments to poor families in Brazil. It describes Brazil's transfer programs and presents statistics on school attendance and child ...
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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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(2012-04-09)Department: Latin American StudiesThis project analyzes the disparate images of women produced during the period of Getúlio Vargas’ Estado Nôvo from 1937-1945, discussing their significance in the state-driven process of identity formation during the period. ...
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(2017-08-07)Department: Latin American StudiesThe Orthodox Church is an institution with deep roots in nationalism and collective identity. It is the patriotic faith of the majority of Eastern European nations, where many regard following the nationally dominant faith ...
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(2016-07-27)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesA new phase equilibria “magma-meter” determines a number of magmatic storage and crystallization conditions, including pressure, oxygen fugacity (fO2), state of fluid saturation, and maximum temperature for glass-bearing ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-05)This paper takes a closer look at Bolsa Família, an anti-poverty program, and its impact on youth education over its fifteen years of existence in Brazil. More specifically, it will explore the distinctive effects the ...
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(2014-06-09)Department: HistoryThis dissertation studies the Northeastern region of Brazil by contemplating its interactions with the world around it. It sets out from the assumption that Northeastern regional identity is in constant transformation due ...
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(2016-12-12)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores the African slave trade in the early South Atlantic. It considers Spain’s colonization of the Río de la Plata and Upper Peruvian hinterland and Portugal’s colonization of Angola and Brazil as ...
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(2019-11-11)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesTropical ecosystems regulate global climate, act as carbon sinks, and contain some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world. Yet, increased human population growth and associated land use needs have made tropical ...