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An Econometric Analysis Of The “Backward-Bending” Labour Supply Of Canadian Women, Adib J. Rahman Dec 2013

An Econometric Analysis Of The “Backward-Bending” Labour Supply Of Canadian Women, Adib J. Rahman

Undergraduate Economic Review

This econometric study investigates the labour supply behaviour of Canadian women at different composite hourly wages of all paid jobs. The objectives of this study are to test the canonical model of labour supply and to observe women's responsiveness to changes in the wage rate by using 2009 cross-sectional data. The results show a backward bending labour supply schedule for Canadian women, and thereby confirm the conclusions reached by the Nakamuras (1981), and Robinson and Thomes (1985).

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Determining The Feasibility Of Implementing An Effective Fungiculture Program With The Peace Garden At Illinois Wesleyan University, Mackenzie Rivkin '14 Dec 2013

Determining The Feasibility Of Implementing An Effective Fungiculture Program With The Peace Garden At Illinois Wesleyan University, Mackenzie Rivkin '14

Outstanding Senior Seminar Papers

The Peace Garden at Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU), the organic garden at the small liberal-arts university in Bloomington, Illinois, is devoted to growing nutritious, pesticide-free food to be sold locally in an attempt to counterbalance the various food-related issues which stem from conventional food systems. Mushrooms, fungi with many nutritional benefits, are not currently produced by the Peace Garden. However, the unique nature of mushrooms may be attractive to certain consumers and could further contribute to the Peace Garden's mission if produced. This study, conducted September to December 2013 is guided by the following question: What is the feasibility of …

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Assessing The Biodiversity And Susceptibility Of Trees In Maxwell Park To Future Invasive Tree Pest Outbreaks, Genevieve Alexander '14 Dec 2013

Assessing The Biodiversity And Susceptibility Of Trees In Maxwell Park To Future Invasive Tree Pest Outbreaks, Genevieve Alexander '14

Outstanding Senior Seminar Papers

The purpose of this project was to assess tree susceptibility to invasive tree pest outbreaks in a Central-Illinois urban park. Tree biodiversity in Maxwell Park, located in the Town of Normal, Illinois, was evaluated assuming that the greater the tree biodiversity in a park, the more resilient the park would be to future invasive tree pest outbreaks. The Town of Normal Parks and Recreation Department served as the community partner for this project. By determining Maxwell Park’s current level of biodiversity, proposed new trees for future replacement plantings could be identified to help increase biodiversity and decrease the potential for …

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Assessing The Indoor Tanning Behaviors And Risk Of Skin Cancer Among Illinois Wesleyan University Students, Ellen Cornelius '14 Dec 2013

Assessing The Indoor Tanning Behaviors And Risk Of Skin Cancer Among Illinois Wesleyan University Students, Ellen Cornelius '14

Outstanding Senior Seminar Papers

The purpose of this research is to assess the indoor tanning behaviors of students at Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) in Bloomington, Illinois and formulate strategies to reduce students’ risk of skin cancer. Skin cancer is widespread, and is the second most common cancer among people aged 15-24 years. There is strong evidence to support that many skin cancer cases seen today could have been avoided if the individual had never used an indoor tanning device. Research suggests the use of indoor tanning devices is popular among college-aged females in the US, thus persuading this demographic to reduce their indoor tanning …

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Application Of Sgt Family Distributions In Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Samuel Dodini Oct 2013

Application Of Sgt Family Distributions In Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Samuel Dodini

Undergraduate Economic Review

In the classical normal linear regression model, ordinary least squares estimators (OLS) will be consistent and achieve the Cramer-Rao lower bound for any unbiased estimators. This paper examines the impact of several other error distributions on the properties of the OLS estimators. Several different types of example data commonly available to students and researchers in economics are used to illustrate the impact of nonnormality, because, in application, the assumption of normality may not hold in empirical testing. Using maximum likelihood, I demonstrate that flexible probability density functions better model the residual distribution of different types of data, which suggests improvements …

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New Book Fills Major Gap In Kenyan History, Kim Hill Oct 2013

New Book Fills Major Gap In Kenyan History, Kim Hill

News and Events

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Distinguished Professor, Author To Speak, Tia Patsavas Oct 2013

Distinguished Professor, Author To Speak, Tia Patsavas

News and Events

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Halloween Candy: A "Rich, Dark" History, Kim Hill Oct 2013

Halloween Candy: A "Rich, Dark" History, Kim Hill

News and Events

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Of Hawks And Doves: Monetary Policy By Heterogeneous Committees, Gregor Schubert Oct 2013

Of Hawks And Doves: Monetary Policy By Heterogeneous Committees, Gregor Schubert

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper develops an institutional explanation based on strategic, heterogeneous committee members for the phenomenon of inertia in monetary policy rates, by exploring variations of a game-theoretic two-period, two-player bargaining model with an endogenous status quo. The results show that inertial policy-making can arise from heterogeneity in preferences and that gridlock and policy inefficiency can become more likely due to variability in agenda-setting power, or decreases in uncertainty over the future. These conclusions are shown to accord with the empirical evidence on monetary policy setting by committees at major central banks over the last decade.

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Political Science Alumni Panel, Tia Patsavas Oct 2013

Political Science Alumni Panel, Tia Patsavas

News and Events

No abstract provided.

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Diet And Health Capital: An American Case Study, Matthew J. Klein Oct 2013

Diet And Health Capital: An American Case Study, Matthew J. Klein

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper begins to model diet's contribution to national stocks of Health Capital as defined in Kenneth Arrow et al.'s (2012) "Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth" by developing a set of equations that link the diet of a nation’s average citizen to that nation’s per capita welfare over time. The model is applied to the American diet from 2005 to 2009. This research finds that even a small change in diet can have a large impact in whether or not a nation is sustainable over time.

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Lessons In Injustice: Privilege Walks, Karen Silverman Oct 2013

Lessons In Injustice: Privilege Walks, Karen Silverman

The Intellectual Standard

If you are a white male take one step forward. If your parents did not grow up in the United States take a step back. If you were born in the United States take a step forward. These are some of the questions one might hear at a Privilege Walk, which is an activity held at many universi­ties in order to "provide participants with an opportunity to understand the intricacies of privilege" (Young, 2006). Questions such as these are asked to partici­pating students who stand shoulder to shoulder in a straight line. Students take steps forward when their answers to …

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Climate Geoengineering And Iwu's Ethics Bowl, Jake K. Bates Oct 2013

Climate Geoengineering And Iwu's Ethics Bowl, Jake K. Bates

The Intellectual Standard

In its sophomore season of competition, Illinois Wesleyan's Eth­ics Bowl team qualified for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl hosted in San Antonio, Texas on February 28. In spite of technical difficulties and flight delays, the team returned to campus having won the first annual Spirit of the Ethics Bowl award, an honor recognizing sportsmanship which was voted on by opposing teams. Ethics bowl competition centers around a set of cases featuring ethical dilemmas and quandaries published by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. It is structured so that a presenting team has ten minutes to answer a question regarding anyone …

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In Defense Of Technology, Mike Kelly Oct 2013

In Defense Of Technology, Mike Kelly

The Intellectual Standard

During the Middle Ages, i.e. the "Dark" Ages, man's worldview was largely dominated by mysticism, irrationality, and collectivism. The universe was widely perceived as epistemologically unknowable and meta­physically malevolent, dooming man to suffering and tragedy. Given the widespread political and social instability, as well as the ravages of un­stoppable plagues and warmongering nations, such conclusions were not totally unreasonable. The Enlightenment and its corollary, the Scientific Revolution, delivered western civilization from the Dark Ages into an age of reason, science, and individualism. What was once perceived as un­knowable, uncertain, and malevolent, became knowable, certain, and be­nevolent. The universe became a …

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Evaluate The Effect Of Imf’S Longer-Term Concessional Lending Programs On Growth In The Development Background Of Sub-Saharan Region, Guanyi Yang Sep 2013

Evaluate The Effect Of Imf’S Longer-Term Concessional Lending Programs On Growth In The Development Background Of Sub-Saharan Region, Guanyi Yang

Undergraduate Economic Review

Despite different voices from critics, the IMF has put development at the center of its policies. This paper tries to separate the effect of SAF, ESAF, PRGF, and ECF on growth empirically. Selecting a sample of 44 countries in the Sub-Saharan region from 1986 to 2011, it analyzes whether the IMF’s longer-term structural adjustment programs influences economic growth in participating countries. Consistent with previous studies, this research shows that SAF and ESAF have statistically insignificant impact on growth in the short term and long term. PRGF and ECF, on the other hand, are found to have a large and strong …

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Factors Explaining Obesity In The Midwest: Evidence From Data, Josh Matti, Hansol Kim Sep 2013

Factors Explaining Obesity In The Midwest: Evidence From Data, Josh Matti, Hansol Kim

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper attempts to determine the factors explaining obesity in the Midwest by using standard OLS multiple regression analysis and cross-sectional data. We examine independent variables related to built environment and determine effects on obesity. This study finds that some factors influencing calories consumed, such as percent of restaurants that are fast food, are consistent with the prior literature. However, other factors, such as the number of fast food restaurants per 1000 people, yield surprising results. The results of this study suggest that obesity is a multifaceted issue that is not close to being fully explained.

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The Scholars Cooperative: A New Marketing Approach For Our Scholarly Communications Initiatives, Michael Priehs, Damecia Donahue Aug 2013

The Scholars Cooperative: A New Marketing Approach For Our Scholarly Communications Initiatives, Michael Priehs, Damecia Donahue

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

No abstract provided.

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Let There Be Light! Indexing Materials From Digital Commons In Apache Solr Via Oai-Pmh, Graham Hukill Aug 2013

Let There Be Light! Indexing Materials From Digital Commons In Apache Solr Via Oai-Pmh, Graham Hukill

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

No abstract provided.

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Citations In A Cinch: From Bibliographies To Faculty Engagement, Brianne Hagen Aug 2013

Citations In A Cinch: From Bibliographies To Faculty Engagement, Brianne Hagen

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

No abstract provided.

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The Brockport Staffing Model, Kim Myers Aug 2013

The Brockport Staffing Model, Kim Myers

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

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Getting Started With Data Management Planning Services, Sarah Shreeves Aug 2013

Getting Started With Data Management Planning Services, Sarah Shreeves

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

This session will cover the why’s and how’s of data management planning and will cover useful tools and strategies for libraries to use whether large or small.

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High Impact Or Open Access: Strategies For Recruiting Faculty To Your Institutional Repository, Joshua Neds-Fox, Damecia Donahue Aug 2013

High Impact Or Open Access: Strategies For Recruiting Faculty To Your Institutional Repository, Joshua Neds-Fox, Damecia Donahue

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

Donahue and Neds-Fox will detail the strategy used by the Wayne State University Libraries to make the case for Green Open Access participation by faculty. Presenters will outline their approach to crafting the case for Open Access and deposit using studies supporting OA citation advantage, ISI's JCR, SHERPA/RoMEO, and a library-centered service model for citation review and deposit. (Note: This program was presented at Michigan Library Associations Academic Libraries Conference in May, and may be previewed at http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/libsp/65/.)

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Digital Commons & Share: Opportunities And Challenges In Implementing The Arl Recommendations For Dc Users, Damecia Donahue, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill, Joshua Neds-Fox, Michael Priehs Aug 2013

Digital Commons & Share: Opportunities And Challenges In Implementing The Arl Recommendations For Dc Users, Damecia Donahue, Cole Hudson, Graham Hukill, Joshua Neds-Fox, Michael Priehs

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

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Keeping Track Of Copyright Permissions, Craighton Hippenhammer Aug 2013

Keeping Track Of Copyright Permissions, Craighton Hippenhammer

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

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Jump-Starting Your Journal: Exploding Content Access Via Repository Publishing, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis Aug 2013

Jump-Starting Your Journal: Exploding Content Access Via Repository Publishing, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

Since 2009 Eastern Illinois University (EIU) has hosted the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy (JCBA), the annual journal of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. The journal compiles the best research, op-eds, and practitioner perspectives on the subject of collective bargaining in higher education, a particularly important subject in the past half-decade of economic constriction, salary stagnation, and pension pressures. This presentation will demonstrate that institutional repository open access does dramatically improve discoverability by comparing logs from the locally hosted platform to usage statistics from Digital Commons. Differences in …

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Demonstrating Impact Through Effective Communication, Kim Myers Aug 2013

Demonstrating Impact Through Effective Communication, Kim Myers

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

Digital Commons represents a significant investment for most institutions. This presentation will focus on how to demonstrate the value to your stakeholders. From creating a Communication Plan, recognizing who your stakeholders are, to providing both periodic and annual reports; a successful repository manager must have a variety of tools available and know when to use them.

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Library And University Press As Journal Publishing Partners - Wayne State University Press And Libraries, Joshua Neds-Fox Aug 2013

Library And University Press As Journal Publishing Partners - Wayne State University Press And Libraries, Joshua Neds-Fox

Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

The Wayne State University Press Journals program comprises ten scholarly print serials. When the Press sought to deliver its journals electronically, in-house, for the first time, it established a mutually beneficial collaboration with the Libraries to host, format, manage and preserve its content online. We propose a case study of this collaboration, documenting the program, the process, and the unique features of this partnership. Neds-Fox will discuss the collaboration, the unexpected benefits for both partners not directly related to the publishing of the journals, and the future directions for the partnership.

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Nguyen ’15 Places In Putnam Competition, Natalya Grabavoy May 2013

Nguyen ’15 Places In Putnam Competition, Natalya Grabavoy

News and Events

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Inflation Targeting And Growth: The Role Of The Tradable Sector, Luis Monroy Gómez Franco May 2013

Inflation Targeting And Growth: The Role Of The Tradable Sector, Luis Monroy Gómez Franco

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper provides an analytical explanation to the empirical association between monetary policy conducted according to the inflation targeting (IT) framework and the appreciation of the exchange rate, relating it to the literature on the effects of the exchange rate on growth. A two sector small open economy model is developed in which the behavior of the non tradable inflation and the nominal exchange rate are analyzed. The results indicate that the response to inflation variance under the IT regime causes the appreciation trend. Since this trend is not reversed immediately, increasing returns in the tradable sector affect capital accumulation.

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An Event-Related Examination Of Neural Activity During Social Interactions, Jason Themanson, Stephanie Khatcherian, Aaron Ball, Peter Rosen May 2013

An Event-Related Examination Of Neural Activity During Social Interactions, Jason Themanson, Stephanie Khatcherian, Aaron Ball, Peter Rosen

Scholarship

Social exclusion is known to cause alterations in neural activity and perceptions of social distress. However, previous research is largely limited to examining social interactions as a unitary phenomenon without investigating adjustments in neural and attentional processes that occur during social interactions. To address this limitation, we examined neural activity on a trial-by-trial basis during different social interactions. Our results show conflict monitoring neural alarm activation, indexed by the N2, in response to specific exclusionary events; even during interactions that are inclusionary overall and in the absence of self-reported feelings of social pain. Furthermore, we show enhanced attentional activation to …

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