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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms
This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 Census microdata. Reduced-form estimates suggest that state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out-of-wedlock childbearing effects are largest and most precisely estimated for black women. The relatively modest fertility and marriage consequences of abortion reform for white women do not appear to have changed schooling or labor market outcomes. In contrast, black women who were exposed to abortion reforms experienced large reductions in teen fertility and teen out-of-wedlock fertility that appear to have led to increased schooling and employment rates. Instrumental variables estimates of the effects of teen and out-of- wedlock childbearing on the schooling and employment status of black women, using measures of exposure to abortion reform as instruments, are marginally significant and larger than the corresponding OLS estimates.
Bayesian inference of natural selection from allele frequency time series
The advent of accessible ancient DNA technology now allows the direct
ascertainment of allele frequencies in ancestral populations, thereby enabling
the use of allele frequency time series to detect and estimate natural
selection. Such direct observations of allele frequency dynamics are expected
to be more powerful than inferences made using patterns of linked neutral
variation obtained from modern individuals. We develop a Bayesian method to
make use of allele frequency time series data and infer the parameters of
general diploid selection, along with allele age, in non-equilibrium
populations. We introduce a novel path augmentation approach, in which we use
Markov chain Monte Carlo to integrate over the space of allele frequency
trajectories consistent with the observed data. Using simulations, we show that
this approach has good power to estimate selection coefficients and allele age.
Moreover, when applying our approach to data on horse coat color, we find that
ignoring a relevant demographic history can significantly bias the results of
inference. Our approach is made available in a C++ software package.Comment: 27 page
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Potholes on China's. New Silk Road: An Analysis of Chinese Aid and Investment in South Asia
For centuries, the Indian Subcontinent has played a role as a crossroads of East
and West and as a geopolitical kingmaker, encouraging trade but also representing
the wealthiest region ever to be conquered. In the 21st Century, the emerging
global power of China has rapidly increased their aid and investment in South Asia,
forging stronger economic ties with past partners and upending decades of
alliances with other powers. This thesis focuses on the motivations, decisions, and
outcomes of Chinese financial flows into South Asia, analyzing the degree that
Chinese investment matches governmental claims of motive and how the
geopolitical landscape is changing in response to Chinese money. Split into four
sections, the thesis first provides justification for focus on the importance of South
Asia and the unique nature of Chinese aid and investment, particularly with respect
to China's One Belt, One Road Initiative. Next, the thesis overviews past literature
on antecedents, decisions, and outcomes of Chinese investment, providing
background to qualitative changes the tests run in this thesis. Thirdly, the thesis
runs regressions and tests to provide greater clarity to the motivations behind
Chinese investment. The final chapters examine case studies of the two largest
recipients of Chinese investment, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and explore how the
investment patterns and political outcomes of these two countries are reflected
across many recipients of Chinese money, and how these outcomes have called
into question the success of the One Belt, One Road Initiative. This research relies
on data collected by AidData at the College of William & Mary and the goal of this
thesis is to call into question the state of literature and differing narratives regarding
Chinese investment by providing quantitative evidence for or against certain claims.Plan II Honors Progra
Recursive Machine Translation
Machine translation tools such as Google Translate are at best seen as useful approximators, rather than offering any literary potential. In this experiment and short methodological reflection, I use Google Translate to recursively translate Austrian poet Georg Trakl’s celebrated WWI poem, ‘Grodek’, between German and English, until the two versions stabilise. I am attentive to places in which the poem and its renderings are simplified and/or literary value may be lost, but also places in which new or unexpected renderings emerge. This is a preliminary foray, but I propose that the method of recursive machine translation offers a new way to explore the translation of literary texts—a timely proposal, given the increasing applications of computer programmes and machine learning both within the humanities and throughout wider literary culture
The Death and Life of the Single-Family House: Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City
Written by Nathanael Lauste
The Northwestern Shoshone Indians, (a) under Tribal Organization and Government, (b) Under the Eccleastical Administration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as Exemplified at the Washakie Colony, Utah
The Northwestern Shoshone Indians is the tribe of Indians that inhabited the territory north of the Great Salt Lake comprising the northern part of Utah and the Southern part of Idaho. The Indians have loose boundary lines, yet we can definitely state that this tribe occupied the territory from the Weber river on the South to the Snake river on the North: from Bear Lake and the Bear river on the East to Raft river and Goose creek on the West. Their confines would take in Weber, Rich, Box Elder, Cache, and part of Morgan, counties in Utah: and Bear Lake , Caribou, Cassia, Oneida, Franklin, Bonneville, parts of Power, Minidoka, Bingham, counties in Idaho
Autism Camouflaging in Relation to Views about Autism, Mental Health, and Gender Identity
This study examined relationships between autism camouflaging behavior, personal views about autism, community support, camouflaging emotional impact, depression, anxiety, ability to be one’s authentic self and gender in autistic adults. Participants were recruited through Facebook groups. There were 248 participants (174 cisgender women, 22 cisgender men, and 43 nonbinary people). It was hypothesized autism camouflaging behavior, its emotional impact and authentic self would correlate with depression and anxiety. Gender and camouflaging emotional impact were correlated with depression levels, but camouflaging behavior was not correlated with depression or anxiety. Participants with lower self-reported acceptance of authentic self had higher depression and anxiety symptoms. Cisgender women and nonbinary participants reported more camouflaging behavior than cisgender men. Community support was correlated with positive personal views of autism.
Keywords: Autism, Camouflaging, Masking, Community, Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression, Gender, Nonbinary, Authentic Sel
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