Project Working Sessions

I'm gauging interest in study groups from April 17-21 for working groups on 722 projects. While you will be working on your projects individually, some collaboration may be helpful if you have questions about what process would be best to accomplish, need help interpreting data, or if you just need another pair of eyes to look over what you are working on. Please contact me via email ( klord@hunter.cuny.edu ) if you are interested. I will be bringing extention cords and a couple of surge protectors so everyones laptop can keep running. Please include what days and hours would be best for you; even if you work during the day, I will do my best to make for some accomodations after regular working hours. Because the space in the conference room is limited, if there is high interest, some people may not be accomodated every day, but every reasonable effort will be made to ensure that everyone gets as much time as possible.

Reminders/FYI: You must have your data cited for HW3, please have the data downloaded to your laptop PRIOR to arriving at a collaborating session, failure to do so will result in slow bandwidth for everyone. Stat-Transfer is available at the social-sciences lab (where we meet), and some of your classmates have it, if you require use of stat-transfer, you should try your very best to utilize the lab, or your friends prior to the collaborating session, unless you are specifically having problems with hammering your data into shape.

Best of luck, and to those of you who actually take vacations, have a fun one,
Ken Lord

Monday Brownbag seminar

From Professor Jonathan Conning:

Hi All,

We are happy to announce that the Department's Monday Brown Bag Seminar Series is back up and running. The series starts this next Monday 27th with a talk by Randall Reback of Barnard on "Teaching to the Rating: School accountability and the Distribution of Student Achievement".

Talks will run from 11:30am - 1pm on Mondays in the Department Seminar room.

The other Monday talks for the semester are:

April 10 KAREN MACOURS (Johns Hopkins/SAIS)

"Relative Deprivation and Civil Conflict in Nepal"

April 24 TAVNEET SURI (Yale University)

"Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption"

May 8 LENA EDLUND (Columbia University)

"Women, Wealth, and Mobility" (joint with Wojciech Kopczuk)

Papers and schedule always found at:

http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/RePEc/seminar/

Hope to see you Monday.

Beers and Bellydancing (Nadav's doing the dancing, that is)

There are big things going on tonight:

First, we'll be giving some of our younger colleagues a crash course in 80's culture - the movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, will be shown in the econ conference room starting at 5:00 p.m. Chips, soda, and other things left over from the BA/MA information sessions will be available for consumption. Special thanks to Susree Chakraborty for unearthing this cinematic delight.

Second, it's time to take young Eric Mingione out on the town to celebrate his 23rd birthday. We'll be leaving Hunter to go grab some sushi, where his friends can show their appreciation for the hardest working student in the program.

Third -and not without a little bit sadness- the program's patron saint, Papa Seck, will be saying goodbye as he returns to Senegal. I encourage everyone to come out and give him a big send-off. His gathering will be at the Belgian Bar at 148 W. 4th Street, starting at 9 o'clock. I know I'm speaking for a lot of people when I say that he'll be deeply missed.

Oh yeah....and then we're going out to some of Aziz Kassim's favorite places (hence the title). Lana & Lana is expected to join us.

Macro class recordings available

Thanks to Eric, audio recordings for all of the Macro classes are now available online, and will only be available up until the exam on Monday.

To access the recordings, go to this link.

Second Annual Hayek Lecture at the CUNY Grad Center

This looks interesting. Special thanks to Profs. Thurston and Filer for keeping the Hunter MA students in mind.

Hayek's Challenge
Presented by Bruce J. Caldwell
Rosenthal Professor of Economics, UNC - Greensboro

Thursday, April 7th in the Segal Theatre - 1st Floor, CUNY Grad Center
Starts at 4:30 with a reception to end at 6:30

Macro midterm study group

This Sunday, some of your fellow students will be gathering in the Economics Conference Room to study for the upcoming Macro midterm. Sivie has suggested 2:00 p.m. as the start time.

If you have any questions, e-mail Sivie.