Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Culture"
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Effects of Non-Symbolic Approximate Number Practice on Symbolic Numerical Abilities in Pakistani Children
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Current theories of numerical cognition posit that uniquely human symbolic number abilities connect to an early developing cognitive system for representing approximate numerical magnitudes, the approximate number system ... -
Essays in Development and Public Economics
(2021-06-10)This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter investigates the role of tax rates and tax enforcement in stimulating tax revenues in low-capacity settings. Using a randomized policy experiment assigning ... -
Institutional and Cultural Roots of Industrial Development in Modern Turkey
(2014-06-06)In this dissertation I investigate the historical, institutional, and cultural roots of different regional development trajectories in modern Turkey. Historical comparison of two similar cities of 1920's, namely Kutahya ... -
Melting Lizards and Crying Mailboxes: Children's Preferential Recall of Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Previous research with adults suggests that a catalog of minimally counterintuitive concepts, which underlies supernatural or religious concepts, may constitute a cognitive optimum and is therefore cognitively encoded and ... -
Parents and Sages as Agents of Culture in the Babylonian Talmud
(2022-05-16)This dissertation explores how the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) portray parents as involved in cultural transmission. Earlier scholarship has claimed that the rabbis sought to replace parents and the home as the ... -
Popular Opinion and Public Reasoning: Intellectual Changes and Institutional Innovations in Late Ming China (1580s-1640s)
(2014-06-06)This study examines the rise of popularist discourse in the realms of intellectual transformation, political reforms, institutional innovations, social activism, and cultural construction from the 1580s to the 1680s. ... -
Renaissance Primitivism: Old Worlds, New Worlds, and the Origins of Culture in Early Modern England
(2021-11-16)No traffic, no magistrates, no occupation, no property: when Shakespeare lifted a passage from Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals” for Gonzalo’s ideal commonwealth in The Tempest, he was tapping into one of the richest veins opened ... -
We See You: How Recognition of Low-Income, First-Generation Students is Institutionalized in Two Universities
(2022-05-12)American colleges and universities make great promises of economic and social mobility but consistently fail to deliver on them, leaving thousands of low-income, first-generation (LIFG) students in debt and without a degree. ...