Who Holds Employer Stock?
This paper examines the effect of race in employer stock levels in pension accounts and reported risk preference as an indicator of company stock holdings.
Research
Twenty-first century doodling
Jillian Jordan, Emily Rutter, and Emma Templeton, Harvard College How does Facebook use impact memory of lecture content? As Facebook becomes increasingly popular, this question is important for students and educators alike. Participants in the present study were assigned to listen to a podcast while freely browsing Facebook, viewing an album of Facebook pictures, or doing nothing. Then, participants completed [...]
Jimmy the Camera
Photography has played a major role in portraying an image of the American AIDS crisis. The unique work of Laurie Simmons, especially her photograph that places AIDS victim Jimmy DeSana in a camera costume, reverses the usual visual segregation of AIDS victims and preserves his memory as a souvenir and memorial.
New Meaning to “Bar Flies”
After a long and unforgiving week, the weekend has finally arrived and, with it, a whole slew of parties, filled with libations and fellow single college students. When the night turns out to be not as successful as planned, you retreat to the bar or your single-not-by-choice den and drown your sorrows in some more libations (provided that you’re 21 [...]
A Braille tale
The blind in China face the difficult challenge of learning to read Chinese. The current Braille system has a number of shortcomings, causing several communication problems between the blind and the sighted. A proposed system based on the Japanese Braille system could help the blind better their opportunities and way of life.
Price differentials among hospitals in Massachusetts
Health care in Massachusetts ranks exceptionally well but suffers from high hospital costs. This study examines why prices for similar services vary so much among Massachusetts hospitals.
Spatial organization of neocortical myelinated axons at the ultrastructural level
This paper examines the organization of myelinated axons, the long neuronal processes integral to long distance communication in the brain circuitry.
Hill stability and Kozai evolution with applications to Kuiper belt binaries
This study investigates the stability of a three-body system, which is a difficult problem in astrophysics. The author focuses on how stability criteria are altered when considering the Kozai effect, or the periodic alternation of inclination and eccentricity in the smaller binary pair.
Evolving 2-CNF under uniform distribution
This paper extends the model of Darwinian evolution through computational learning, showing that the class of 2-CNF functions are evolvable when input variables are uniformly distributed.
Price theory and the U.S. Congress
This paper aims to determine whether discrimination theory or human capital theory better explains the historical underrepresentation of women in Congress.