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Sllt - Seven Musings on a Great Book
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-12-17)
The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
Exploring the Local Association : a nearby, young kinematic stream of stars in the solar neighborhood
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008)
During the course of my Honors Research Project, I worked with Dr. David
James to determine whether a group of target stars are members of the Local Association.
I did this by reducing spectroscopic data, taken by Dr. ...
A Dynamic Factor Approach to Nonlinear Stability Analysis
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-08)
A method of principal components is employed to investigate nonlinear dynamic factor structure using a large panel data. The evidence suggests the possibility of nonlinearity in the U.S. while it excludes the class of ...
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
(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 ...
The Political Economy of State Fair-Housing Laws Prior to 1968
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
The confluence of the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement propelled the drive for "fair-housing" legislation which attempted to curb overt discrimination in housing markets. This drive culminated in the passage ...
Competition and Confidentiality: Signaling Quality in a Duopoly when there is Universal Private Information
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-07)
How does the need to signal quality through price affect equilibrium pricing and profits, when a firm faces a similarly-situated rival? In this paper, we provide a model of non-cooperative signaling by two firms that compete ...
Public Good Provision and the Comparative Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs an income tax schedule for redistributive purposes and provides a public ...
VU GeoNews 2006
(Vanderbilt University, 2006-09)