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Does Consumer Search Matter for Firm Markups?
(2005-08-13)This study investigates the relationship between consumer search costs, inflation, and firm markups in retail trade by employing actual measures of search cost. Consistent with theory, results indicate that markups can be ... -
Does gender matter? Transfer students' perceptions of their transition experiences.
(, 2014-06-11)This study focuses on the role of gender in the meaning-making processes of transfer students and their selection and use of institutional and non-institutional resources during their transitions to a new university. ... -
Does Medicare increase opioid drug usage? A regression discontinuity study.
(2018-04-22)Recently, the overuse of opioid medications in the United States has garnered national attention, spurring many leaders to declare it a national epidemic. Medicare Part D provides prescription drug coverage for various ... -
Does Naturalization Increase Years of Education? Effect of IRCA on Educational Attainment of Undocumented Immigrant Children
(2020-05-20)This paper studies the effect of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (“IRCA”) on the educational attainment of undocumented immigrant children. IRCA provided a path to citizenship for over 3 million undocumented ... -
Does Subjective Socioeconomic Status Relate to Health Outcomes?: Blunted and Exaggerated Cardiovascular Responses to Stress
(2020-05-19)Lower levels of subjective and objective socioeconomic status (SES) and stress are related to adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Individual differences in cardiovascular responses to stress has been proposed as a potential ... -
Does viewing bullying violence affect the allocation of attention in young adults?
(, 2012-08-08)The purpose of the current study was to experimentally test the relationship between symptoms of inattention and vicarious experiences of bullying. The research questions of the current study were: 1) Can vicarious ... -
Dogmatic orientations toward worldly and otherworldly authority.
(2009-06-30)This study focuses on dogmatic orientations toward worldly and otherworldly authority. Using data from the Baylor Religion Survey, I attempt to identify which social conditions are especially salient in determining ... -
Dollarization and growth : a synthetic control approach to Ecuador and El Salvador’s cases.
(2016-04-21)This thesis examines the impact of full dollarization on economic growth in Ecuador and El Salvador by employing the synthetic control method. We find that, relative to the counterfactual built, these currency substitutions ... -
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: A Community Problem, A Community Solution
(2017-05-23)Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is the commercial exploitation of US citizens under the age of 18. This phenomenon, though often hidden or ignored, is prevalent across United States and in our communities. This study ... -
Don't Be a Boron! Boron Chemistry and Its Uses in Medicine
(2019-05-20)This thesis aims to give a current account of the status of boron chemistry in medicine. The first chapter examines the chemical novelty of boron, and therefore the unique bonding capabilities that make it particularly ... -
The Donatist church in an Apocalyptic age.
(, 2014-09-05)As a dissident Christian tradition that still endured sporadic Imperial persecution, the Donatist church occupied a unique niche within the wider apocalyptic milieu of late antiquity. This was an era characterized by intense ... -
Dostoevsky, Soloviev, and the Problem of Theocracy in The Brothers Karamazov
(2017-05-23)I examine the relationship between Ivan Karamazov's early article on theocracy and his articulation of theocracy in the parable of The Grand Inquisitor. In this study, I look to Russian Orthodox writings on political ... -
Dostoevsky’s View of the Russian Soul and its Impact on the Russian Question in The Brothers Karamazov
(2014-05-01)Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s most renowned novelists, profoundly affected the way that Russia would think of itself in the years following his death. One of the most important issues for Dostoevsky and other ... -
Double Bind: Women of Color in Business Leadership
(2016-12-05)This paper argues that women of color are underrepresented in business leadership because of the unique and shifting standards by which they are evaluated. I seek to explain the relative lack of minority women in business ... -
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Dr. Chandra, Will I Dream? Surreal Art and Artificial Intelligence
(2019-05-23)Surrealism's roots in early psychology, which emphasized dreams and the subconscious, made me wonder–what if the mind being portrayed in a surreal artwork were an artificial mind? This thesis is a series of three digital ... -
Dressing the Part: The Costume of Roman Women
Although women in antiquity are often perceived as suppressed and inferior by modern readers, Roman women played specific roles in society. They were daughters, brides, matronae, and priestesses. Each woman performed her ... -
Drone Warfare: Ethical Controversies and Voices of Experience
(2018-12-18)The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or ‘drones’ has drastically increased in the last two decades. That increase has been accompanied by a rise in anxiety – both among the general public and military ethicists – about the ... -
Drug Trafficking in Mexico: Causes and Consequences of Militarization
(2012-05-06)During the period of one party rule within Mexico, drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) funneled narcotics through Mexico virtually unobstructed. Throughout this period, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) protected ...