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March | 2013 | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Monthly Archives: March 2013. March 29, 2013 · 8:43 pm. Three extra credit opportunities. A blog post with analysis, meaning a critique of what was said, relationship to current events or class material, etc., is due on the Monday morning following the event. Summaries of material are not sufficient to get credit for this assignment. Please limit your comments to about a page (400 words). April 11, 7:30pm: Hesburgh Lecture on energy prices, Mara Auditorium. March 25, 2013 · 7:15 am. Your regression resul...
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September | 2012 | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Monthly Archives: September 2012. September 25, 2012 · 12:39 pm. Fiscal New Year Party 2012. As most of you are seniors, you know that the Economics Department hosts a party every year when the federal budget turns over. That day has come. Friday, September 28 in the Economics Main Office. 1-4pm. Poker, Monopoly, trivia, prizes, and delicious food. Possibly some brownie points as well. Filed under Just for Fun. September 25, 2012 · 12:28 pm. How are the stories different? Remember to comment on your blog...
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November | 2012 | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Monthly Archives: November 2012. November 16, 2012 · 8:46 pm. Poverty Traps–the end? One of the first chapters we read in Poor Economics this year was about poverty traps. More has been published recently about this phenomenon and in particular, this blog post talks about how the end of poverty traps. Filed under Issue in the News. November 12, 2012 · 10:41 am. How do the authors use statistics to make the big points in the chapter? What did you learn? November 7, 2012 · 1:51 pm. From Advice to Writers.
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August | 2012 | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Monthly Archives: August 2012. August 28, 2012 · 4:58 pm. Assignment #1 Fall 2012. I have been informed that the two additional books, Poor Economics and Freakonomics, were not ordered. They are being ordered. In the meantime, you are welcome to order the books from another source, such as Amazon, and I will post Chapters 2 and 3 of Poor Economics on Moodle so that you can do this week and next week’s readings. How often do they blog? What do you find interesting or not as interesting about them? Protest...
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Blogging Advice | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Each student will keep an individual blog, and each student must subscribe to the class blog, available here. Please make sure that I can identify your userid (THIS DOES NOT HAVE TO BE YOUR GETTYSBURG ID) in a private email or on the blog, whichever you prefer. Since I require you to subscribe to this blog, the simplest way to set up your blog for the class is to use wordpress. Some hopefully helpful hints:. Feel free to be creative. Cut and paste (with attribution). Illustrate. Interview exp...You are c...
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Extra credit opportunities | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Assignment #9 Spring 2013. No blog post this week →. March 29, 2013 · 8:43 pm. Three extra credit opportunities. A blog post with analysis, meaning a critique of what was said, relationship to current events or class material, etc., is due on the Monday morning following the event. Summaries of material are not sufficient to get credit for this assignment. Please limit your comments to about a page (400 words). April 11, 7:30pm: Hesburgh Lecture on energy prices, Mara Auditorium. Assignment #9 Spring 2013.
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Freakonomics: Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? | kemccracken
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Freakonomics: Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? September 19, 2012. Page 57, directly after defining conventional wisdom: In the early 1980s, an advocate for the homeless named Mitch Snyder took to saying that there were about 3 million homeless AmericansMore than 1 of every 100 people were homeless? Page 66, the fate a foot soldier faces by working in J.T.’s gang for four years:. Number of arrests- 5.9. Number of nonfatal wounds or injuries- 2.4. Chance of being killed- 1 in 4. Yeah, now t...
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Final post for the semester (#11) | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Assignment #10 Spring 2013. Job opportunity at EPI →. April 22, 2013 · 7:26 am. Final post for the semester (#11). As sort of a final semester wrap-up, this week you should read Chapter 4 of Freakonomics and the journal article that inspired part of it: The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime by Donohue and Levitt. On Moodle, find the articles entitled LevittAbortion.pdf and LevittAbortionCritique.pdf. Read both of them, in that order. What did you find surprising? Assignment #10 Spring 2013. UCLA Stat...
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April | 2013 | Economics 350:Quantitative Methods
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Monthly Archives: April 2013. April 23, 2013 · 12:26 pm. Job opportunity at EPI. For graduating seniors who do not have a job yet, Economic Policy Institute in DC is hiring two research assistants. They have hired Gettysburg grads in the past and do some really interesting policy work. Http:/ www.epi.org/about/jobs/. April 22, 2013 · 7:26 am. Final post for the semester (#11). How do you reconcile the chapter in Freakonomics and the two papers. Limit your response to 600 words. Assignment #10 Spring 2013.
