After conferring with both students and professors, I have arranged for the conference room (1537 HW) to be available for an ECO721 study group on Wednesday from 1:30-4:30. The study group will not be led/moderated. While we are happy to answer specific questions, your ability to succeed, especially in 722, will be strongly correlated to your ability to study, research, and learn in a more peer-oriented and individual manner. I realize that the time may not be convienent for you, however there are significant limitations on the availability of the conference room this semester.
*It has come to my attention there will be a fire drill at approximately 1:30, you may wish to wait until the drill is completed before beginning your review.
Best Regards,
Ken Lord
Monday, October 16, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Invisible Children / Child labor
On behalf of Americans for Informed Democracy(AID), I am honored to invite you to attend a screening of a groundbreaking documentary called “Invisible Children" . “Invisible Children” is a rough cut documentary made by several young Americans to document the war in Northern Uganda , in which children are being abducted by a rebel army and forced to fight as child soldiers. After the film Professor Partha Deb who had done a research on the same theme of the movie will lead us in a discussion on the topic of child labor. This event will take place on Wednesday, October 11th at 1 pm, Thomas Hunter Room 105 Our plan for this event is to first screen the film, which is 55 minutes long and then have 30-45 minutes of discussion about what we’ve just watched together. Free Snacks will be served.
For more information see http://www.invisiblechildren.com/
For more information see http://www.invisiblechildren.com/
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
From Professor Conning
The Hunter Economics Brown Bag Seminar series has started up again. The talks will be held every other Thursday from 11:30am-1pm in the Economics Seminar room. All Hunter BA/MA students are very welcome and encouraged to attend. This semesters talks are focused on public finance (Brunner, Rockoff), macro (Westelius), and some very interesting demographic issues in economic development (Lagerlof, Baker, Kazianga).
Date
Speaker
Oct 5th
Eric Brunner (Quinnipiac College)
Tiebout Choice and Universal School Vouchers
Oct 19th
Nils-Petter Lagerlöf (York U and Brown U)
War and genocide: is there a connection to transitions from stagnation to growth?
Nov 2nd
Matt Baker (Hunter College)
Technological Progress, Property Rights, and Population Growth: A Structural Model of the Transition to Agriculture.
Nov 16th
Jonah Rockoff (GSB, Columbia)
Title to be announced.
Nov 30th
Harounan Kazianga (Columbia and The World Bank)
The Intra-household Economics of Polygyny: Fertility and Child Mortality in Rural Mali
Dec 14th
Niklas Westelius (Hunter College)
Imperfect Transparency and Optimal Monetary Policy
The website with the papers is available here: http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/RePEc/seminar/
You might want to mention that Hunter Faculty are also involved in organizing or presenting the seminars in two other series:
The Friday 1pm Labor, Education and Health Seminar and the Tuesday 11:45am Applied Economics Seminar
both held in room 5383 at the Graduate Center. Worth highlighting is a talk by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz to be held at the Graduate Center
Tuesday Oct 31 (Room C201&C202) entitled "A Modest Proposal for the Reform of the Global Financial System."
I've also made a public Google Calendar that lists the talks from all three series in one place.
The Hunter Economics Brown Bag Seminar series has started up again. The talks will be held every other Thursday from 11:30am-1pm in the Economics Seminar room. All Hunter BA/MA students are very welcome and encouraged to attend. This semesters talks are focused on public finance (Brunner, Rockoff), macro (Westelius), and some very interesting demographic issues in economic development (Lagerlof, Baker, Kazianga).
Date
Speaker
Oct 5th
Eric Brunner (Quinnipiac College)
Tiebout Choice and Universal School Vouchers
Oct 19th
Nils-Petter Lagerlöf (York U and Brown U)
War and genocide: is there a connection to transitions from stagnation to growth?
Nov 2nd
Matt Baker (Hunter College)
Technological Progress, Property Rights, and Population Growth: A Structural Model of the Transition to Agriculture.
Nov 16th
Jonah Rockoff (GSB, Columbia)
Title to be announced.
Nov 30th
Harounan Kazianga (Columbia and The World Bank)
The Intra-household Economics of Polygyny: Fertility and Child Mortality in Rural Mali
Dec 14th
Niklas Westelius (Hunter College)
Imperfect Transparency and Optimal Monetary Policy
The website with the papers is available here: http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/RePEc/seminar/
You might want to mention that Hunter Faculty are also involved in organizing or presenting the seminars in two other series:
The Friday 1pm Labor, Education and Health Seminar and the Tuesday 11:45am Applied Economics Seminar
both held in room 5383 at the Graduate Center. Worth highlighting is a talk by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz to be held at the Graduate Center
Tuesday Oct 31 (Room C201&C202) entitled "A Modest Proposal for the Reform of the Global Financial System."
I've also made a public Google Calendar that lists the talks from all three series in one place.
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