Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Jennifer Piscopo on "Do Women Change Politics?"
The Politics Department invites the college community to attend a talk by Politics Search Candidate Professor Jennifer Piscopo of Salem College.
Does increasing women's legislative representation lead to policy responsiveness in the area of gender equality? Women comprise over 30 percent of the legislature in both Argentina and Mexico, but Argentina has passed more significant and more radical gender equality reforms. Using an original, large-n dataset and over 70 field interviews, I argue that legislative institutions, namely committee and caucus systems, condition female politicians' policy success. Paradoxically, when women's caucuses are strong, as in Mexico, the resultant policies are less assertive about women's legal and social equality. Argentina's weaker institutions actually allow female politicians to advocate for stronger equality reforms.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Spirituality, Social Justice and Martin Luther King
Where Spirituality Meets Social Justice: Lessons from MLK
Please join a lunch time discussion about spirituality, social justice, nonviolence and what we can learn about working for justice from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Catherine Ambler Economics Talk
The Economics Department invites the college community to attend a talk by Economics search candidate Catherine Ambler of the University of Michigan. Her talk is entitled "Don't Tell on Me: Experimental Evidence of Asymmetric Information in Transnational Households."
Although most theoretical models of household decision making assume perfect information, empirical studies suggest that information asymmetries can have large impacts on resource allocation. In this study, I demonstrate the importance of these asymmetries in transnational households, where physical distance between family members can make information barriers especially acute. I implement an experiment among 1,300 Salvadoran migrants in Washington, DC and their family members in El Salvador that examines how (1) changing the ability of participants to observe each other and (2) revealing migrant preferences can affect the sending and spending of remittances. Migrants make an incentivized decision over how much of a cash windfall to keep and how much to send home, and recipients decide how to allocate the spending of a remittance. Migrants remit significantly more when their choice is observed by recipients, and this effect is concentrated among pairs where recipient ability to punish migrants is plausibly high. The results support a model of remittance sending where migrants react strategically to being monitored, but only when recipients can enforce remittance agreements. Recipients make spending choices closer to the migrants’ preferences when they are revealed, suggesting that recipients’ choices may be inadvertently affected by imperfect information on migrant preferences. Together, these results indicate that information imperfections in families are varied and can affect resource allocation in both strategic and inadvertent ways.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
And we’re here to help you with your scholarship technology needs. Whether you want to explore basic or advanced functionality in Moodle, collaborative online tools for group work, new devices and apps that may enhance or complicate (!) teaching and learning, or simply grab a bite with friends- come join us in the CDLR space.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Eagle Rock Juice Company Sampling
Free samples of cold pressed juice!
We offer simple and accessible nutrient based drinks with pre-made recipes of freshly pressed juice (bottled in-house) raw blends and wheat grass. All of our produce is organic and local.
Great tasting juices with the best nutrients your body needs. Come to the quad, get a free taste, and learn more about us!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Occidental Petroleum and the War on Drugs
What does Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum have to do with the War on Drugs?
Politics search candidate Sandra Alvarez of UC Santa Cruz will explore the intersecting interests and actors that connect Occidental Petroleum to the U.S. and Colombian governments and a transnational network of rights activists to ask: When corporations align with national governments, what can social movements do to resist displacement, development, and/or violence?
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Men's Basketball
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Attend an information session led by a representative of the CIA discussing the multiple positions currently available for graduating Seniors. Hear about a career path in this distinguished government agency.