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Economics

Special section : Base closures in the Fifth District

Federal Reserve District, 5th ; Job security

Satisfaction and adaptation in voting behavior: an empirical exploration

Dynamic models of learning and adaptation have provided realistic predictions in terms of voting behavior. This study aims at contributing to their scant empirical verification. We develop a learning algorithm based on bounded rationality estimating the pattern of learning process through a two-stage econometric model. The analysis links voting behavior to past choices and economic satisfaction derived from previous period election and state of the economy. This represents a novelty in the literature on voting that assumes given voter preferences. Results show that persistence is positively affected by the combination of income changes and past behavior and by union membership.voting; bounded rationality; learning; political accountability

Satisfaction and adaptation in voting behavior: an empirical exploration

Dynamic models of learning and adaptation have provided realistic predictions in terms of voting behavior. This study aims at contributing to their scant empirical verification. We develop a learning algorithm based on bounded rationality estimating the pattern of learning process through a two-stage econometric model. The analysis links voting behavior to past choices and economic satisfaction derived from previous period election and state of the economy. This represents a novelty in the literature on voting that assumes given voter preferences. Results show that persistence is positively affected by the combination of income changes and past behavior and by union membership.voting; bounded rationality; learning; political accountability

Universities open doors : Gulf coast students migrate to Fifth District

Universities and colleges ; Federal Reserve District, 5th

Adaptive voting: an empirical analysis of participation and choice

Dynamic models of learning and adaptation have provided realistic predictions in terms of voting behavior. This study aims at contributing to their empirical verification by investigating voting behavior in terms of participation as well as choice. We test through panel data methods an outcome-based learning mechanism based on the following assumptions: (a) people expect that the party they do not support will be unable to bring economic improvements; (b) they receive a feedback whose impact depends on the consistency between their last voting behavior and personal economic improvements (or worsening) from the last election; (c) they tend to discard choices associated to an inconsistent feedback. Results show that feedbacks of this sort affect persistence of voting behavior, interpreted as participation and voting choice. Age and trade union affiliation reinforce this adaptive behavior. The analysis also investigates the intensity of the learning feedback, differentiating between a strong inconsistent feedback, which leads to a vote switch in favor of the opponent party, and a weak inconsistent feedback, which induces just abstention rather than a vote switch.voting, bounded rationality, learning, political accountability

Characteristics and associated factors of non-suicidal self-injury among Italian young people: A survey through a thematic website

Background and aims The aim of this study is to examine the characteristics of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in a group of young Italians who self-injure. In examining the characteristics, specific attention was given to the feelings and personal experiences associated with episodes of NSSI. Methods The research involved 362 young people (332 females and 30 males) who completed an online survey hosted on a website specifically geared to supporting young people who self-injure. This methodology enabled involving a diverse population of young people who self-injure, thus going beyond specific groups or clinical samples. Results Results show that the majority of respondents start injuring themselves between the ages of 12 and 16 years (72.38%, n = 262). Cutting was the most common self-injuring method (81.77%, n = 297). The 79.83% (n = 289) of respondents had not sought professional help for their wounds, preferring to care for their wounds on their own. More than half of the respondents (56.91%, n = 206) claimed to have experienced anxiety-spectrum disorders and almost half of the respondents (41.71%, n = 151) claimed to have experienced some type of eating disorder. Discussion and Conclusions Many similarities have been found between this study and the literature, thus strengthening the hypothesis that NSSI is becoming a universal issue with similar characteristics across countries

The Muted Group Video Project: Amplifying the Voices of Latinx Immigrant Students Proposal

Christine Martorana\u27s proposal outlines her succesful Muted Group Video Project. Dr. Martorana\u27s diverse Rhetorical Theory and Practice students created videos about their experiences as immigrants for a local third grade class also composed mainly of immigrants, in turn encouraging discussion on the rhetoric surrounding immigration and fostering a sense of community

Women, Heroines, Mothers: Motherhood in Ovid’s Heroides

My thesis navigates the maternal experience in the Heroides, thereby resituating them within the most recent gender-based readings of Ovidian works, and Latin literature as a whole, as well as addressing works that deal with motherhood in the Roman world. Ovid’s elegiac epistles, which – almost uniquely in classical literature – give a subjective voice to female characters, offer a fertile ground of enquiry to broaden the scholarly debate on motherhood in Latin Literature, as well as contributing to discussions on gender-informed interpretations of Ovidian poetry. By building on a combination of a philological approach and gender theory, my thesis uncovers the subversive content of the Heroides, as well as leading us to appreciate their stylistic, thematic, and narratological peculiarities, including: a high degree of ambiguity; ironic discourse; interplay with previous sources; references to their contemporary context; polyphony; and the coexistence of literary genres. Chapter 1 (Her. 1) navigates Penelope’s relationship with Telemachus to show how motherhood serves the heroine’s appropriation of a central role within her household. Chapter 2 shows Phaedra’s self-empowerment in Her. 4, as well as Canace’s (re)appropriation of her maternal experience (Her. 11). Chapter 3 mainly draws from Butler’s gender performativity to explore Deianira (Her. 9), but also from Braidotti’s posthuman feminism to analyse Medea’s motherhood (Her. 12), which contributes to her self-construction as a female (posthuman) subject-in-becoming. Chapter 4 focuses on Hypsipyle’s and Dido’s letters (Her. 6 and 7) through the lens of Ettinger’s recent theorisations on the maternal body and narrative theory, respectively. My thesis demonstrates that the heroines’ motherhood enhances their self-empowerment and catalyses the gender-role reversals that feature in their epistles. By showing how these mothers express their independence, in ways that are perhaps subtle, ironic, and highly rhetorical, my thesis also engages with contemporary discussions about women’s leadership, maternity, and gender equality