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1	I Spy With My Little Eye Ivan, Anne January 2022 (has links) No description available. spying hometown exploration city Design Design
2	Migrant-Funded Development: The Influence of Mexican Hometown Associations on Development Indicators Lopez, Rachel 05 June 2012 (has links) This thesis examines development as a catalyst for the decision to migrate. Specifically, the two complementary theories of relative deprivation and social networks are examined to explore possible associations between level of household development and migrants' designation of savings or remittances towards development-related purposes and whether remittances are positively affected by migrants' participation in a hometown association (HTA). The study relied on data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), using the historical Mexican sending state of Jalisco. The MMP, using an ethnosurvey method, gathers data on individual migrant experiences, including border-crossing methods, jobs held, and participation in migrant hometown associations, amenities found in individual households, and available services in communities. No support was found for the first hypothesis, which predicted that relative deprivation was a catalyst of migration. Support was found for the second hypothesis, that migrant participation in HTAs, specifically in social clubs, positively influenced designation of savings or remittances for development-related purposes. This same support was not the case for migrant involvement in sport clubs. This thesis contributes to social network theory, pinpointing the positive effect that migrant participation in hometown associations has on designating money towards development. / Master of Arts relative deprivation development Mexico hometown associations social network theory
3	Essays on banking Lim, Ivan Wen Yan January 2018 (has links) This thesis consists of three essays on banking in the U.S. The first two chapters study how supervisors and regulators influence bank behavior. The third chapter explores how bank CEOs allocate credit. The first chapter uses a quasi-natural experiment, the closure of regulatory offices, to identify the effects of supervision on bank behavior. Under the decentralized structure of U.S. bank supervision, banks in the same geographic area may be supervised by different regulatory offices. The chapter shows that, following the closure of a regulatory office, banks previously supervised by that office increase their solvency risk and lending compared with banks in the same counties that are supervised by a different regulatory office. Further, these banks exhibit lower risk-adjusted returns, lower asset quality, and opportunistic provisioning behavior for loan losses. Information asymmetry between banks and supervisors partly explains the results. The second chapter documents that nearly 30% of U.S. banks employ at least one board member who currently or previously served on a regulator’s advisory council or on the board of a regulator as a form of public service. The chapter shows that connections to regulators undermine regulatory discipline by decreasing the sensitivity of bank risk to capital. Connected banks are able to extract larger public subsidies than non-connected banks by shifting risk to the financial safety-net, resulting in wealth transfers from taxpayers to shareholders of risk-shifting connected banks. One potential reason for these effects is that connected banks receive preferential treatment in supervision from regulators. The third chapter uses the birthplace of U.S. bank CEOs to investigate the effect of hometown favoritism on bank business policies. Exploiting within-bank variation in distances to a CEO’s hometown, the chapter shows that banks make more mortgage and small business lending as well as branch expansions in counties that are proximate to the hometown of the CEO. This is due to the CEO’s altruistic attachment to her hometown; the effects are stronger during economic downturns, among altruistic CEOs, in poorer counties and marginal mortgage applicants. Further, hometown favoritism does not lead to worst bank performance. However, it is associated with positive economic outcomes in counties exposed to greater favoritism.
4	Undervisning av lokalhistoria på mellanstadiet / Teaching local history in middle school Lindström, Suzanna January 2020 (has links) Research shows that the pupils in school need anchoring in reality and motivation to become interested and understand history. Local history is the history about the community and makes it possible for the ordinary person to become part of historic events. The aim with this study is to clarify in which magnitude local history is taught in middle school, how and what is taught and if teaching local history contributes to the development of the pupils´ identity and knowledge. Interviews with teachers in middle school reveals that the teachers mainly teach local history by visiting different locations, for example museums. Teachers use local history when ordinary history lessons need clarification. The study contains a survey that shows that the larger part of the pupils who answered the survey knows what local history means. The pupils are also mainly interested in his or her family history compared to history in general and history about his or her hometown. / Forskning visar att eleverna i skolan behöver verklighetsförankring och motivation för att intressera sig och förstå historia. Lokalhistorien är historia om närsamhället och möjliggör för den vanliga människan att vara delaktig i det historiska skeendet. Syftet med denna studie är att förtydliga i vilken omfattning lokalhistoria undervisas på mellanstadiet, hur och vad som undervisas, samt om undervisning av lokalhistoria bidrar till elevers identitets- och kunskapsutveckling. Genom lärarintervjuer framkommer det att lärarna främst undervisar om lokalhistoria genom olika studiebesök, men också för att förtydliga undervisningen av historia. Studien innefattar en enkätundersökning med syfte att undersöka om elever som går i årskurs sex har intresse av historia och om deras reflektioner kring lokalhistoria. Enkätundersökningen visade att större delen av de elever som svarade på enkäten vet vad lokalhistoria betyder. Eleverna är också främst intresserade av sin familjs historia jämfört med historia allmänt och om sin hemstad. Family history hometown in reality local history middle school Familjens historia hemstaden lokalhistoria mellanstadiet verklighetsförankring Learning Lärande
5	Thalhimers Department Store: Story, History, and Theory Smartt, Elizabeth Thalhimer 01 January 2005 (has links) This thesis looks at Thalhimers department store through the lenses of story, history, and theory. It first introduces the intertwining narratives of the author's paternal family and the store's history, then shares the author's personal story of Thalhimers. The second half outlines the master narrative of the American department store then applies "fantasy-theme analysis" and the symbolic convergence theory to stories and artifacts related to Thalhimers. A conclusion discusses the end of the department store era including a deeply personal goodbye from the author. hometown Hechts Virginia May Department Store family business shopping genealogy department store Richmond Arts and Humanities English Language and Literature
6	Up Close Gross, Isabella Reed 20 July 2023 (has links) No description available. Literature Environmental Philosophy Gerontology poetry Northern Michigan nature hometown grandmother dementia Viking 1 Lander Mars self-love self-reflection relationships value meaning voice
7	Determinants for the effective provision of public goods by honduran hometown associations in the United States: the Garífuna case Zavala, Carlos Gustavo Villela January 2006 (has links) Magister Artium - MA / The study concludes that the existence of HTAs in the USA is explained by the socially enforced institution of the hijos del pueblo (sons of the town) having a duty to help their hometowns, as well as the private benefits of preserving Garífuna traditions and the possibility of helping repatriate dead immigrants. Fulfilling this duty (and the consequent prestige attained) provides the incentives to send CRs home. In the cases studied, CRs were used to partly finance potable water projects, electricity projects, road paving, a community centre and the construction of a Catholic temple. In most of the cases HTAs worked with a local development organisation, known as Patronato, which formed specific committees for executing projects, for example the water and the electricity committees. For the construction of the temple, a religious organisation known as Pastoral was the local partner. The term Collective Remittances (CRs) refers to the money sent by migrant associations, known as Hometown Associations (HTAs), to Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) in their hometowns for financing public works projects. Few cases of CR are known in Honduras. The only ones reported are among the Garífunaethnic group living on the Caribbean Coast, and with a large migrant community in New York City (NYC). This mini-master’s thesis is the first study written on CRs in Honduras. It studies CR experiences in four Garífuna hometowns and their corresponding HTAs in NYC. It answers three questions: How do CRs work in each case? What are the determinants for HTAs to provide CRs to the hometowns? And what are the determinants for local CBOs in the hometowns to use the CRs effectively to provide public goods in the hometowns? CR is conceptualised as a that chooses which local group and project to finance, and the local CBO, which is the agent Migration Honduras United States of America Garífuna Morenales Remittances Collective remittances Hometown associations Community-based development Community-based organisations Patronatos Public goods New institutional economics Institutions Transaction costs Bounded rationality Information asymmetry Contracts Implicit contracts Agency Incentives Principal-agent approach Principal Agent Information economics Search and information costs Monitoring costs Opportunism Adverse selection Moral hazard Hidden action Effectiveness

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