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The Colby Echo (December 8, 2006), Colby College Dec 2006

The Colby Echo (December 8, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


Religion And Subjective Well-Being Among China’S Elderly Population, Philip H. Brown, Brian Tierney Dec 2006

Religion And Subjective Well-Being Among China’S Elderly Population, Philip H. Brown, Brian Tierney

Working Papers in Economics

Evidence from developed and developing countries alike demonstrates a strongly positive relationship between religiosity and happiness, particularly for women and particularly among the elderly. Using survey data from the oldest old in China, we find a strong negative relationship between religious participation and subjective well-being in a rich multivariate logistic framework that controls for demographics, health and disabilities, living arrangements and marital status, wealth and income, lifestyle and social networks, and location. In contrast to other studies, we also find that religion has a larger effect on subjective well-being on men than women.


The Colby Echo (December 1, 2006), Colby College Dec 2006

The Colby Echo (December 1, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (November 17, 2006), Colby College Nov 2006

The Colby Echo (November 17, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (November 10, 2006), Colby College Nov 2006

The Colby Echo (November 10, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (November 3, 2006), Colby College Nov 2006

The Colby Echo (November 3, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (October 27, 2006), Colby College Oct 2006

The Colby Echo (October 27, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (October 13, 2006), Colby College Oct 2006

The Colby Echo (October 13, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (October 6, 2006), Colby College Oct 2006

The Colby Echo (October 6, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (September 29, 2006), Colby College Sep 2006

The Colby Echo (September 29, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (September 22, 2006), Colby College Sep 2006

The Colby Echo (September 22, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (September 15, 2006), Colby College Sep 2006

The Colby Echo (September 15, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (September 7, 2006), Colby College Sep 2006

The Colby Echo (September 7, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


Candidate Quality And Voter Response In U.S. House Elections, Walter J. Stone, Nathan J. Hadley, Rolfe D. Peterson, Cherie D. Maestas, L. Sandy Maisel Sep 2006

Candidate Quality And Voter Response In U.S. House Elections, Walter J. Stone, Nathan J. Hadley, Rolfe D. Peterson, Cherie D. Maestas, L. Sandy Maisel

Working Papers in Economics

We propose and test the implications of a two-dimensional concept of candidate quality in U.S. House elections. Strategic quality is composed of the skills and resources necessary to wage an effective campaign; personal quality is composed of the characteristics most ordinary citizens value in their leaders and representatives, such as personal integrity and dedication to public service. We employ district informants in studies of the 1998 and 2002 congressional elections to measure these qualities in candidates, and we merge mass survey data with the district informant indicators to assess constituents’ awareness and evaluation of House candidates, and voting choice. We …


Media Coverage And Charitable Giving After The 2004 Tsunami, Philip H. Brown, Jessica H. Minty Jun 2006

Media Coverage And Charitable Giving After The 2004 Tsunami, Philip H. Brown, Jessica H. Minty

Working Papers in Economics

Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study in a tobit framework, we show that media coverage of disasters increases charitable donations, with an additional minute of nightly news coverage increasing donations by 0.036 standard deviations from the mean. We repeat the analysis using instrumental variables in a tobit model to account for endogeneity, and the estimates are unchanged. We also show that the magnitude and sign of media impact vary by news source and relief agency.


Experimental Economics Methodologies And Applications: Price Competition Among Gasoline Stations, Albert Goodman May 2006

Experimental Economics Methodologies And Applications: Price Competition Among Gasoline Stations, Albert Goodman

Senior Scholar Papers

Experimental economics is the newest tool available to improve the research of economists. The first chapter reviews the methods that experimentation employs. The review is important for understanding the construction and running of experiments as well as the criticisms. The second chapter illustrates the methods through an example experiment of the Allais Paradox. The third chapter develops an original experiment involving the pricing decisions of gasoline by owners of adjacent gasoline stations. Anecdotal evidence shows that gas stations located in close proximity to one another often have different prices. This result contradicts existing oligopoly and duopoly theory. An experiment is …


The Colby Echo (May 4, 2006), Colby College May 2006

The Colby Echo (May 4, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


Be The Change You Wish To See: National Attiudes And Climate Change Policy, Emilia Tjernstrom May 2006

Be The Change You Wish To See: National Attiudes And Climate Change Policy, Emilia Tjernstrom

Senior Scholar Papers

A multitude of views characterize what should or should not be done about climate change, and in the past decades, nations have acted very differently in the face of climate change. This study explores factors that affect individuals' attitudes and concerns towards the environment and how those attitudes ultimately affect climate change policy. One model investigates the link between individual attitudes and countries' actions on climate change, and the results show that attitudes indeed matter in the implementation of policy. Different measures of democracy such as freedom of the press also prove to be important as channels for these attitudes. …


The Colby Echo (April 27, 2006), Colby College Apr 2006

The Colby Echo (April 27, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (April 20, 2006), Colby College Apr 2006

The Colby Echo (April 20, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


The Colby Echo (April 13, 2006), Colby College Apr 2006

The Colby Echo (April 13, 2006), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.


Average Annual Wind Resource Potential In Maine, Randa Capponi ('06) Apr 2006

Average Annual Wind Resource Potential In Maine, Randa Capponi ('06)

Atlas of Maine

Data were downloaded from the Web site of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the United States Department of Energy. It was produced by True Wind Solutions and shows the areas in Maine where it would be viable to undergo wind power projects.


Wetlands And Conservation Lands Of Maine, Cait Cleaver ('06) Apr 2006

Wetlands And Conservation Lands Of Maine, Cait Cleaver ('06)

Atlas of Maine

This map shows the location of wetlands and the location of conservation lands. The conservation lands are categorized based on land ownership including state-owned, federally-owned, and privately-owned lands.


Aquifers And Wells Of Maine, Sarah Kelly ('06) Apr 2006

Aquifers And Wells Of Maine, Sarah Kelly ('06)

Atlas of Maine

The Aquifers and Wells of Maine map was created by downloading data from the Maine Office of GIS. The data indicate where wells and aquifers are located as well as the quantity of water within aquifers. This map is a resource to evaluate the current debate over groundwater withdrawal in Maine.


Primary Nesting Sites Of The Piping Plover, Least Tern, Roseate Tern, And Bald Eagle, Hilary H. Langer ('06) Apr 2006

Primary Nesting Sites Of The Piping Plover, Least Tern, Roseate Tern, And Bald Eagle, Hilary H. Langer ('06)

Atlas of Maine

This map indicates the landcover of Maine and distribution of primary nesting sites for four birds found in Maine: the Piping Plover, Least Tern, Roseate Tern, and Bald Eagle.


Woodlot Ownership And Forest Cover In Maine, Liza Mitchell ('08) Apr 2006

Woodlot Ownership And Forest Cover In Maine, Liza Mitchell ('08)

Atlas of Maine

The Woodlot Ownership map was created using data from the Maine Office of GIS and analyzed using ArcGIS 9. The data show where woodlots are located and the category of ownership as well as the density of forest cover across the state.


Maine Ski Areas: Past And Present, Chris Russoniello ('06) Apr 2006

Maine Ski Areas: Past And Present, Chris Russoniello ('06)

Atlas of Maine

This map of current and former Maine ski areas was developed from data on the New England Lost Ski Areas Project Web page (www.nelsap.org). It documents ski areas that are closed as well as currently open ski areas overlain on top of Maine county outlines obtained from the Maine Office of GIS.


Maine Public Water Supplies Proximities To Wetlands, Scott Shahverdian ('06) Apr 2006

Maine Public Water Supplies Proximities To Wetlands, Scott Shahverdian ('06)

Atlas of Maine

This map was created to show the proximity of public water supplies in Maine to wetlands, which are known to be water filtration areas. The map shows that a significant number of public water supplies in Maine are within 4km of wetlands.


Soil Types Of Maine, Katie Renwick ('07) Apr 2006

Soil Types Of Maine, Katie Renwick ('07)

Atlas of Maine

This map was created using data gathered as part of the National Soil Survey, which is available from the Maine Office of GIS. This map shows the distribution of 70 general soil types, which are all composed of several more specific soil types grouped together based on the similarity of their components.


Maine Public Water Supplies, Karen Prisby ('07) Apr 2006

Maine Public Water Supplies, Karen Prisby ('07)

Atlas of Maine

This map showing locations of public water supplies in Maine was created in ArcGIS 9.1 using data downloaded from the Maine Office of GIS. The map shows point locations of groundwater wells, areas of surface water supplies, and areas of groundwater well buffers.