Copyright (c) 2010 Illinois Wesleyan University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu Recent documents in Digital Commons@ IWU en-us Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:43:06 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhist_2010/2 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhist_2010/2 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:47:19 PST Phyllis (Smith) Short, Delta Omicron, Collegiate Choir, Band, Orchestra and Phi Kappa Phi, graduated with a BM in 1947. Phyllis J. Short '47 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhist_2010/1 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhist_2010/1 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:09:28 PST Lee Short is a member of the Class of 1944 and served in a variety of campus offices including Registrar, Director of Admissions and head of the Development Office. He retired in 1978. Lee W. Short '44 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol6/iss1/6 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol6/iss1/6 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:48:06 PST Although Vietnam comprised a miniscule portion of the international coffee market during the 1900s, its coffee production skyrocketed after the collapse of the ICA and surpassed Colombian production levels. This unmatched increase attributed the drastic decline in world coffee prices to the oversupply of coffee from Vietnam. Following the methods of Dodaro (1993), a Granger causality analysis between Vietnamese coffee exports and ICO composite price produced neither forward nor reverse causality between these two variables. Using the methodology of Carlin, Glyn, and Van Reenen (2001), labor productivity comparisons aimed to explain the shift of coffee export volume from Colombia to Vietnam. Results demonstrated Colombia's consistently higher labor productivity, thus the disparity in realized comparative advantage does not explain the shift in production. Although Vietnam's success in coffee production accompanied the Colombian coffee sector's demise, a direct link between the two economies does not appear to exist. Vietnam's success likely arose simply from the culmination of relevant government policies, trade agreements, and the collapse of the ICA. Lindsey G. Stockman Economics http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol6/iss1/5 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol6/iss1/5 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:46:13 PST This paper examines several of the explanations commonly provided regarding gold and its price movements. We consider the safe haven, inflation hedge, and dollar destruction hypotheses. The results are mixed. Our data does not support the theories that gold is a safe haven or an inflation hedge. We find that gold is a zero-beta asset and there is a strong negative correlation between gold and the value of the US dollar in the post Bretton-Woods era. The decomposition of gold prices under a semi-structural model finds the aggregate demand shock, monetary policy shock, and precautionary demand shock of gold all only have modest influence on the price movement of gold. Fan Fei Economics http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol6/iss1/4 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol6/iss1/4 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:43:24 PST This is a study of people's retirement timing under defined benefit pension plans (DB plans). The actuarial structure of DB pensions generally creates strong incentive for people to stay with their employers, at least to their early retirement ages, not to retire beforehand. Upon tracking respondents covered by DB plans in the Wave I (1992 cohort) of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) until they left their 1992 employers, we found that a significant percentage of people (about 17%) left their jobs prior to their early retirement ages. Why did people leave prematurely? Several possible hypotheses were considered and examined. Through simple tabulation analyses, we found that workers in the early-leaving group tend to have significantly smaller pension benefits and significantly poorer knowledge about their pensions. The impact of self-reported health status and early retirement windows were not evident. Logistic regressions showed that conditional on age dummies, pension size, and having basic pension knowledge was strongly negatively correlated to premature departure. Both excellent and poor health statuses correlate positively with early departure. Accepting an early-out window also had a significantly positive correlation with early departure. Fan Fei Economics http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/history_honproj/38 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/history_honproj/38 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:40 PST Through the life of Cavey Lambert, I hope to show the importance of men such as him on the frontier - - the way they lived, the work that they did, and the influence that they had on American history as it develope d . Lana D. Lambert '63 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/religion_honproj/12 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/religion_honproj/12 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:23:19 PST The concept of the il.esurrection of our Lord has been a point of confusion for many, both formal students of theology and thinking lay people. Carol J. Miller '67 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_honproj/22 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_honproj/22 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:16:38 PST As far back as man has been recording about himself and prbably a great deal further, he has been using narcotic drugs to help him relieve his tensions , anxiety, pain and fear. Brenda Morgan '66 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/psych_honproj/133 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/psych_honproj/133 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:36:11 PST A significant trend apparent in recent psychological literature is the increasing amount of attention to punishment and such aversive methods of behavior control. Sharon Lane '67 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_honproj/21 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_honproj/21 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:31:23 PST It will be the concern of this paper to explore the use of the chemical d-lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in therapeutic regimes for alcoholics. Patti Lyddon '67 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/amstudies_honproj/1 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/amstudies_honproj/1 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:55:19 PST Workingmen in America have never totally accepted their position in society as fixed or permanent. Generally speaking, American workingmen in the 19th century looked upon their position in society as temporary until such a time came when they were able to ascend into the middle class. Steve Marshall http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_honproj/20 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_honproj/20 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:27:20 PST College students lack knowledge in areas involving individual and community health. Ruth A. 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