Sunday, January 27, 2013
Women's Basketball
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- Time: 1:00 AM
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Men's Basketball
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- Time: 3:30 AM
Monday, January 28, 2013
Penka Kovacheva on the Decline of Fertility in the Former Communist Bloc
The Economics Department invites the college community to attend a talk by Economics Search Candidate Penka Kovacheva of Princeton University. Her talk is entitled "Transition, Wage Uncertainty, and Fertility: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine.
This paper examines the cause of the unprecedented, and still unexplained, 40% decline in total fertility rates across the former Communist Bloc during the 1990s. Using individual-level panel data from Russia and Ukraine, I show that a substantial increase in wage uncertainty in the 1990s triggered the fertility decline, and that a moderate decline in wage uncertainty in the 2000s prompted a partial fertility recovery. I build a dynamic structural model of the joint decisions over fertility and job sector: private, state, and non-work. In the model, wage uncertainty affects fertility because children are illiquid assets. I estimate the key parameters of the model exploiting panel variation in wage uncertainty across job sectors, regions, and time. I construct a measure of wage uncertainty which is a function of the incidence of job dismissal, administrative unpaid leave, and wage arrears. Counterfactual exercises show that lowering wage uncertainty in the private sector to the level of the state sector reduces the fertility gap between sectors by 51-57%. Lowering the levels of the 1990s uncertainty in both sectors to the levels of the late 2000s increases overall fertility by 26-30%. By contrast, I estimate much smaller effects from a traditional fertility stimulus in the form of more generous maternity benefits. These results suggest that in economies with poor labor law enforcement, targeting employment violations (such as wage arrears) can be part of effective fertility policies. More broadly, labor market uncertainty can impose significant negative externalities on irreversible investments such as children.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Jennifer Piscopo Teaching Demo on "The Power of Latino Voters"
The Politics Department invites the college community to attend a teaching demo by Politics Search Candidate Professor Jennifer Piscopo of Salem College.
Political analysts report that Latino voters' support was decisive in re-electing President Obama. Yet, who are "Latino voters"? This class will compare the diversity among Latinos to their perceived power as a unified coting bloc. Given this tension, we will explore whether Democrats and Republicans can successfully design messages to court Latino voters in 2014.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Vegetarian Club Meeting
Calling all vegetarians and animal activists.
Vegetarian Club will be hosting its first meeting of the semester.
This is a mandatory meeting for anyone who wishes to participate in Veg Club this semester.
We will be discussing our huge plans for the semester and need your support, ideas and skills to help us carry out these actions to help the animals, the planet and our health.
We need people who can cook, who can advertise, who can film, who can organize, who can plan, who can motivate and/or who are interested in having a support system of individuals who wish to live a cruelty free lifestyle. So we need you and everything that you bring to the table.
Yummy dinner will be provided!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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