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This thesis details the origins of the Committee on Public Policy Studies (the present-day Harris School of Public Policy) at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1974 [...]
2020-08 |
MA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) |
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Do public policies relating to voter registration impact rates of voter registration and voter turnout? In this professional thesis, I use machine learning techniques to [...]
2024-03 |
MA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) |
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In 2014, China embarked on its most comprehensive, systematic, and profound round of Gaokao reform since the restoration of the national college entrance examination in 1 [...]
2024-03 |
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While it has long been observed that zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) have a critical period for song learning between post-hatch day 30 and post-hatch day 65, it rema [...]
2020-08 |
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This paper adopts a structural relational approach to the study of emerging boundaries of sexualities. Bisexual category, one that inhabits an unsettled borderland betwee [...]
2023-12 |
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This study examines the influence of seven key variables (economic growth, urbanization, population, energy consumption, fossil fuel use, agricultural production, and for [...]
2023-12 |
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The work of students was instrumental to the “New Left” movements of the 1960s in the United States. This paper examines one nearly forgotten group of student activis [...]
2023-12 |
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For indigenous groups, the drive to death from the settler colonial state is persistent and starts at birth with the Child. Viewing birth as the beginning point of the de [...]
2023-12 |
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What holds movements together during prolonged transitional periods of emerging from imperial structures? In such times, I argue that logics of solidarity that were once [...]
2023-12 |
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Prison rape has been a documented and deplored feature of the American penal landscape since at least 1826. Enacted in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was th [...]
2023-12 |
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Caste-based discrimination is a significant issue in both the Indian and Indian-American diasporic contexts. In this paper, I explore the complex dynamics surrounding cas [...]
2023-12 |
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This study examines the memory consolidation effects of a 90-minute nap on perceptual speech learning and explores the variability in consolidation outcomes related to in [...]
2023-12 |
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Fractions, central to many daily life applications, often pose comprehension challenges for children. This research delves into the potential influence of parent-child co [...]
2023-12 |
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Systemic features such as scientific racism, long-standing distrust of the medical establishment, and overall neglect of African American healthcare concerns created chal [...]
2023-12 |
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Chile became the first country to protect brain data as a constitutional right in 2021. This thesis investigates the spatial and temporal position of the respective “Ne [...]
2023-12 |
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This paper examines the process of self-reflexivity, self-determination, and agency within the context of a moon circle ritual. This is a practice arising in contemporary [...]
2023-12 |
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To the extent that students’ academic performance is affected by the composition of their classmates, peer effect is an important topic for social scientists, policymak [...]
2023-12 |
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This thesis explores the impact of Confucianism's intellectual transition and transformation from China to Tokugawa Japan. Confucianism, as a system of thoughts in contin [...]
2019-12 |
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The essay starts by troubling the idea of production, conceived as a kind of unmediated transmission of substance into form, a forward moving arrow of directionality from [...]
2023-08 |
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Exploiting the US’s granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relation (PNTR) to China, this paper examines the effects of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on C [...]
2023-08 |
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Prior research has shown analogies between speech and music, and musicians who possess absolute pitch have been studied extensively. To generalize these findings, active [...]
2023-08 |
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In popular opinion, the “colonial period” of Indian history is said to have begun in the mid-19th century with the Sepoy Mutiny or Indian Rebellion of 1857, after whi [...]
2023-08 |
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Eurocentric conceptions of human-nature relationships render non-human flora and fauna as objects to be manipulated for anthropogenic purposes. However, in Indigenous wor [...]
2023-08 |
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Introduction: Tobacco smoking is a pressing US public health concern, necessitating effective cessation strategies. The rise of electronic cigarettes has spurred increase [...]
2023-08 |
MA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS); Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences |
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The ongoing global increase in wildfire activity is not unique to Australia, yet Australia's Arnhem Land region is uniquely decreasing in bushfire activity despite being [...]
2023-08 |
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