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- Conceptually, we can divide this dissertation into Chapter 1 which is in the tradition of information economics and comparative statics, and Chapters 2 to 4 which had all its genesis in the same project concerning identifying the value of product differentiation to consumers with minimal assumptions, and is therefore related...
- Keyword:
- salience, taxation, public economics, and comparative statics
- Subject:
- Economic theory
- Creator:
- Leal Vizcaíno, René
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15175 and etdadmin_upload_752540
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- There is strong evidence for the benefits of teaching parents of toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) intervention strategies for facilitating language development. A strategy at the core of early parent-mediated interventions for ASD is responsiveness, defined as providing a child with a verbal response each time she communicates. Responsiveness...
- Subject:
- Speech therapy and Early childhood education
- Creator:
- Stern, Yael S
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780753 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15399
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- This dissertation addresses three distinct topics in development economics. The first chapter assesses the role of entry and exit in the measurement of misallocation in India. In the last decade, misallocation of productive inputs across firms has been proposed as a primary driver of differences in aggregate productivity over time...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Peck, Richard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744020 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15134
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- Western scientific norms (e.g., Bacon, 1623/2005) dictate that mechanistic explanations like “rain falls because clouds form water vapor” are preferable to teleological ones like “rain falls so that plants should grow. Do people have preferences that naturally align with this? The predominant interpretation of past research is that they do...
- Keyword:
- explanation, counterfactuals, teleology, and causal reasoning
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology
- Creator:
- Dink, Jacob
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_771757 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15334
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- Commonsense inference is a critical capability of modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The machines need commonsense knowledge to perform tasks exactly like human being does. Learning commonsense inference from text has been a long standing challenge in the field of natural language processing due to reporting bias -- people do...
- Keyword:
- data augmentation, commonsense inference, statistical modeling in text data, NLP, deep learning, and language modeling
- Subject:
- Statistics and Computer science
- Creator:
- Yang, Yiben
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15163 and etdadmin_upload_750023
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- How do perceivers stereotype people who are at the margins of multiple, interlocking social identities? The present dissertation proposes and tests a model of intersectional stereotyping called intersectional categorization theory (ICT). This model advocates the following core ideas: (a) that perceivers use one lens at a time for making sense...
- Keyword:
- Person Perception, Crossed Categorization, Intergroup Relations, Intersectional Stereotyping, and Impression Formation
- Subject:
- Social psychology
- Creator:
- Petsko, Christopher David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744044 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15135
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- Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Música Urbana Verónica Dávila Ellis What meanings are ascribed to the voices and sonic compositions of Caribbean and Latinx women and queer performers? What do their sounds tell us about Caribbean identity, gender, sexuality, and race? This dissertation centers the work of...
- Keyword:
- Women and Gender, Latinx, Dominican Music, Queer, Caribbean, and Performance
- Subject:
- Caribbean studies, Ethnic studies, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Dávila Ellis, Verónica Enid
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15299 and etdadmin_upload_765285
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- With the global rise of surveillance technology, contentious episodes may be captured on video from multiple perspectives. These perspectives include the third-person visual perspective such as red-light cameras and dashboard cameras, the first-person visual perspective such as body-worn cameras, and perspectives from written descriptions such as police reports and witness...
- Keyword:
- Body Cam, Intentionality, Visual Perspectives, Judgment, and Police
- Subject:
- Behavioral sciences and Marketing
- Creator:
- Turner, Broderick Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_761491 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15221
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- Reading informs our understandings of the world. Information we encounter in both academic and everyday reading situations can be integrated into our general knowledge, influencing our perceptions and decisions. When the information we read is valid, these influences are desirable. However, we are also routinely exposed to inaccurate information which,...
- Keyword:
- Inaccurate information, Online search, and Reading comprehension
- Subject:
- Reading instruction and Education
- Creator:
- Donovan, Amalia Margery
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15168 and etdadmin_upload_750749
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- This dissertation studies the sense most neglected in literary studies, philosophy, and the history of the senses: olfaction. It argues that modernity has been marked by a tendency towards deodorization that attempts to establish a monosensorial and odorless civilization shaped by ocularcentrism. Against this tendency, the authors studied here (Friedrich...
- Keyword:
- Poetics, Differentiation, Ecocriticism, Senses, Smell, and Aesthetics
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, German literature, and Aesthetics
- Creator:
- Rosenbrück, Jonas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763165 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15234