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Nicols, John 2007-09-19T23:52:12Z 2007-09-19T23:52:12Z 2007 In: Crises and the Roman Empire (2007) 431-437 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/5055 8 p. 296139 bytes application/pdf en_US Brill Mapping the Crisis of the Third Century Book chapter

Essama-Nssah, B. (Boniface), 1949- Lambert, Peter J. 2006-10-02T21:50:39Z 2006-10-02T21:50:39Z 2006-09-22 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3429 32 p. Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a measure of pro-poorness defined as a weighted average of the deviation of a growth pattern from the benchmark case. The measure can help assess pro-poorness both in terms of aggregate poverty measures which are members of the additively separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income growth can be unbundled, and the contributions of income components to overall pro-poorness identified. An application to data for Indonesia in the 1990s reveals that the amount of poverty reduction achieved over that period remains far below what would have been achieved under distributional neutrality. This conclusion is robust to the choice of a poverty measure among members of the additively separable class, and can be tracked back to changes in expenditure components. 422791 bytes application/pdf en_US University of Oregon, Dept of Economics University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers ; 2006-12 Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth Within an Elasticity Framework Working Paper

Merskin, Debra 2011-11-02T20:58:53Z 2011-11-02T20:58:53Z 2010-12 1433111403 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11738 This book is an examination of how American mass media, including advertising, presents Otherness - anyone or anything constructed as different from an established norm - in terms of gender, race, sex, disabilities, and other markers of difference. Using a mythological lens, the book looks below the surface of media content to explore the psychological, social, and economic underpinnings of a system of beliefs that result in prejudice, discrimination, and oppression. Designed to raise awareness of the foundations of historically-based inequities in the American social, cultural, and economic milieu, the author shows how inequalities are maintained, at least in part, by mass media, popular culture, and advertising representations of Otherness. The book aims to increase awareness of stereotyping in the media, and expose how the construction of people as Others contributes to their marginalization. Written in an accessible and engaging style, with student-friendly discussion questions and resources, this book is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses. en_US Peter Lang Race Gender Sexuality Media Stereotypes (Social psychology) Media, Minorities, & Meaning: A Critical Introduction Book

DePrince, Anne P. Freyd, Jennifer J. 2003-08-11T18:43:51Z 2003-08-11T18:43:51Z 2001 DePrince, A.P. & Freyd, J.J. (2001). Memory and dissociative tendencies: The roles of attentional context and word meaning in a directed forgetting task. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 2 (2), 67-82. 1529-9732 1529-9732 http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/dljtd2001.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1794/66 Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678. E-mail address: <getinfo@haworthpressinc.com> Website: <http://www.HaworthPress.com> (c) 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Conceptual and methodological approaches from cog nitive science have increasingly been applied to research examining the relation between trauma, dissociation and basic cognitive functioning. The current study replicates and extends recent research that examined performance in a directed forgetting task using PTSD and trauma history as the grouping variables (McNally, Metzger, Lasko, Clancy, & Pitman, 1998) to college students who were classified as high or low dissociators based on their performance on the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES: Bernstein & Putnam, 1986). High and low DES participants’ performance was examined under two attentional contexts: a selective attention condition and two new divided attention conditions (based on DePrince & Freyd, 1999). Differences between the groups were revealed when a divided attention version of the task was employed. Consistent with DePrince and Freyd (1999), when divided attention was required, high DES participants recalled fewer trauma and more neutral words than did low DES participants, who showed the opposite pattern. 62291 bytes application/pdf en_US Journal of Trauma & Dissociation Memory Trauma Dissociation (Psychology) Directed forgetting task Memory and Dissociative Tendencies: The Roles of Attentional Context and Word Meaning in a Di rected Forgetting Task Article

Wozniak, David Harbaugh, William Mayr, Ulrich, 1962- 2011-02-09T22:47:36Z 2011-02-09T22:47:36Z 2010-10-28 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10960 60 p. Economic experiments have shown that in mixed gender groups women are more reluctant than men to choose tournaments when given the choice between piece rate and winner-take-all tournament style compensation. These gender difference experiments have all relied on a framework where subjects were not informed of their abilities relative to potential competitors. We replicate these findings with math and word tasks, and then show that feedback about relative performance moves high ability females towards more competitive compensation schemes, moves low ability men towards less competitive schemes such as piece rate and group pay, and removes the average gender difference in compensation choices. We also examine between and within-subjects differences in choices for females across the menstrual cycle. We find women’s relative reluctance to choose tournaments comes mostly from women in the low hormone phase of their menstrual cycle. Women in the high hormone phase are substantially more willing to compete than women in the low phase, though still somewhat less willing to compete than men. There are no significant differences between the choices of any of these groups after they receive relative performance feedback. en_US University of Oregon, Dept of Economics University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers;2010-2 Menstrual cycle Competition (Psychology) -- Sex differences Menstrual Cycle and Performance Feedback Alter Gender Differences in Competitive Choices Working Paper

Gladhart, Amalia 2010-10-13T13:57:18Z 2010-10-13T13:57:18Z 2008 Gladhart, Amalia. "Mobile Thresholds, Immobile Phones: Staging Migration, Return, and the Empty Home in Recent Ecuadorian Theater." Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 32.2 (2008): 280-306. 1555-7839 0145-7888 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10800 en_US Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature Ecuadorian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism Ecuadorian drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism Immigrants -- Ecuador Theater Immigration Mobile Thresholds, Immobile Phones: Staging Migration, Return, and the Empty Home in Recent Ecuadorian Theater. Article

Palandri, Angela C. Y. Jung, 1926- 2008-03-28T18:19:43Z 2008-03-28T18:19:43Z 1972 Literature East and West, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1972): 1066-1069 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/5866 4 p. A print copy of the reviewed book is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT PL2307.L56 book review 150916 bytes application/pdf en_US Jenkins Pub. Co. Modern Chinese poetry: an introduction Other

Branch, William A. Evans, George W., 1949- 2011-02-10T00:18:15Z 2011-02-10T00:18:15Z 2010-04-30 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10965 25, 10 p. : ill. (some col.) This paper studies the implications for monetary policy of heterogeneous expectations in a New Keynesian model. The assumption of rational expec- tations is replaced with parsimonious forecasting models where agents select between predictors that are underparameterized. In a Misspecification Equilibrium agents only select the best-performing statistical models. We demonstrate that, even when monetary policy rules satisfy the Taylor principle by adjusting nominal interest rates more than one for one with inflation, there may exist equilibria with Intrinsic Heterogeneity. Under certain conditions, there may exist multiple misspecification equilibria. We show that these findings have important implications for business cycle dynamics and for the design of monetary policy. en_US University of Oregon, Dept of Economics University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers;2010-4 Heterogeneous expectations Monetary policy Multiple equilibria Adaptive learning Monetary Policy and Heterogeneous Expectations Working Paper

Branch, William A. Carlson, John Evans, George W., 1949- McGough, Bruce 2005-03-22T23:14:05Z 2005-03-22T23:14:05Z 2004-12-07 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/662 52 p. This paper addresses the output-price volatility puzzle by studying the interaction of optimal monetary policy and agents' beliefs. We assume that agents choose their information acquisition rate by minimizing a loss function that depends on expected forecast errors and information costs. Endogenous inattention is a Nash equilibrium in the information processing rate. Although a decline of policy activism directly increases output volatility, it indirectly anchors expectations, which decreases output volatility. If the indirect effect dominates then the usual trade-off between output and price volatility breaks down. This provides a potential explanation for the "Great Moderation" that began in the 1980's. 531074 bytes application/pdf en_US University of Oregon, Dept of Economics University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers ; 2004-19 Expectations Optimal monetary policy Bounded rationality Economic stabilization Adaptive learning Monetary Policy, Endogenous Inattention, and the Volatility Trade-off Working Paper

Evans, George W., 1949- Honkapohja, Seppo, 1951- 2003-08-15T20:46:30Z 2003-08-15T20:46:30Z 2002-05-22 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/95 Commitment in monetary policy leads to equilibria that are superior to those from optimal discretionary policies. A number of interest rate reaction functions and instrument rules have been proposed to implement or approxmiate commitment policy. We assess these optimal reaction functions and instrument rules in terms of whether they lead to an RE equilibrium that is both locally determinate and stable under adaptive learning by private agents. A reaction function that appropriately depends explicitly on private expectations performs well on both counts. 568320 bytes application/pdf en_US University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers;2002-11 Determinacy Stability Adaptive learning Interest rate setting Commitment Microeconomics Macroeconomics Monetary policy (Targets, instruments, and effects) Monetary policy, expectations and commitment Working Paper