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“Jeffrey Sachs and the Costs of Capitalism. Shock Therapy in eastern European Transition Economies”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-20)
This thesis examines economist Jeffrey Sachs’s implementation of shock therapy in transition economies from 1985-1994. Analysis begins with the foundation of the practice in Bolivia, and examines the changes in the approach ...
Motivational and Behavioral Expressions of Schadenfreude among Undergraduates
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
Schadenfreude, the pleasure that results from another person's misfortune, is an interesting topic within emotion research. However, there has been limited research regarding whether cultural tendencies influence the ...
Infant Tool Use and Executive Function
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
How do toddlers’ executive function skills relate to abilities to use familiar tools in unfamiliar ways? What method might encourage infants to employ executive function skills to override their prepotent, or automatic, ...
Memory Encoding: The Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
Preschoolers’ word learning when highlighting lexical or phonological awareness
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-17)
Security, Social Capital, and Child Health in Kyrgyzstan, 2010-2013.
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
The Many Roads to Recovery: Assessing the Recoveries of US Metropolitan Housing Markets Following the Housing Bubble
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
The Dynamics of Interest Rates and Housing Prices at the National and Regional Level
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
Price and Advertisement Targeting in the Online Marketplace
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)