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The latest edition (9/2012) of our newsletter is now available. Older versions of the newsletter are available here. PhD candidate, Morgan Hardy, received the Hewlett Dissertation Fellowship Award. Ms. Hardy ’s dissertation is “The Determinants, Dynamics, and Details of Female Labor Market Participation in the Developing World”. Peter Howitt talks about what businesses can do for "technology transfer". A Review of the Loury-McWhorter Conversations on Bloggingheads about Affirmative Action. Glenn Loury has been elected President of the Eastern Economics Association. He will give the presidential lecture in New York City at the EEA’s annual meetings. His topic: “What’s Left to Say About Affirmative Action?” 25th BREAD Conference on Development Economics is held on April 26-27 at Watson Institute for International Studies. The conference is for registered participants only given space availability. Glenn Loury will participate in a panel discussion focusing on America's growing prison population and what it means for a democratic society, hosted by Brown University on Monday, April 15, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. in List Art Building, Room 120, 64 College St. Glenn Loury is one of four internationally-renowned speakers in a one day symposium on race, families and inequality at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research. Glenn Loury joins other invited scholars in a Trans-Pacific dialogue on “Creating a Productive Future: social and economic challenges, policy and goverance” at the National Museum of Australia. Glenn Loury and Larry Kotlikoff (Boston University) discuss the economist and pundit Paul Krugman on The Glenn Show. Economics concentrator Matthew Sullivan ’13 has been named to the Capital One Academic All-American Division I Men’s Basketball Team. Adjunct Professor David Wyss reflects on jobs, experiences before Brown. The Brown Daily Herald talks with members of the Economics Department about curbing grade inflation. Applied Mathematics-Economics concentrator Lucas Husted ’13 discussed the Brown Economics degree in an op-ed piece in the Brown Daily Herald. Announcing recent appointments and reappointments of Brown economics faculty to editorial boards. Brian Knight was appointed to the editorial board at the American Economic Review. Eric Renault was reappointed to the Board of Associate Editors of Econometrica. Roberto Serrano was appointed to the Board of Games and Economic Behavior.
Nathaniel Baum-Snow joins other faculty in support of gun violence research funding. Glenn Loury discusses his writings on race and affirmative action with Professor of Political Science Corey Brettschneider. Economics chair, Roberto Serrano, discusses the increase in economics concentrators with The Brown Daily Herald. Glenn Loury had two on-line discussions with Louis Putterman about his new book, "The Good, the Bad, and the Economy". 2012 Phd graduate Daeho Kim recently won the Award for Best Dissertation from the Association for Public Policy and Management. Daeho is now an assistant professor at Ohio State University Christina Paxson, Brown University President and Economics Department faculty member, co-writes an op-ed piece about the long lasting psychological trauma for the victims of Hurricane Sandy and Hurrican Katrina. William R. Rhodes ’57, University professor-at-large and a former senior vice chairman of Citigroup and Citibank gave a lecture on his new book “Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Finance,” at the Watson Institute. His talk was the first in the International Finance Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Watson Institute and the Rhodes Center on International Economics and Finance. The next speaker in the series will be Jose Campa, former secretary of state for the economy for the Spanish government. Campa will give a speech titled “The Ongoing Economic Crisis in Europe” at the Economics in the Real World symposium December 7-8, 2012. The Brown Daily Herald talks with George Borts about the transition of the presidency at Brown. Glenn Loury and Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights and a former professor at Santa Clara University debate the proper role of government in reducing economic inequality. The debate was hosted by the Alexander Hamilton Society. Fox Business News talks with Adjunct Professor David Wyss about the state of the economic recovery. The Swedish Academy cites a 2009 paper by Roberto Serrano in its “Information to the Public” document explaining the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2005, Glenn Loury and Roland Fryer (Harvard) published a paper titled "Affirmative Action and Its Mythologies." The Atlantic associate editor Jordan Weissmann uses their paper as a roadmap for considering the costs and benefits of letting schools factor race into their selection criteria. Nature reports that a paper by Oded Galor and former Brown Ph.D. student Quamrul Ashraf (Williams College), "The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development" (American Economic Review forthcoming), sparks a war of words with leading geneticists and anthropologists. The Brown Daily Herald discusses the pledge of economics department alumnus, Jonathan Nelson ’77, to donate half his wealth to a charitable cause. The Brown Daily Herald talks with Glenn Loury about faculty racial diversity. Requirements for the Economics concentration have changed for the class of 2016 and beyond. New requirements include additional calculus and econometrics classes, boosting the concentration’s number of required courses from 10 to 11. The Brown Daily Herald holds a Q&A faculty profile session with Louis Putterman. The Brown Daily Herald talks with Oded Galor about his work studying the relationship between genetic diversity and economic output. Oded Galor and former Brown Ph.D. student Quamrul Ashraf’s (Williams College) recent paper "The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development" (American Economic Review forthcoming) is featured as an Editor's Choice in Science. Glenn Loury and Larry Kotlikoff (Boston University) discuss the LIBOR rate-fixing scandal. Louis Putterman discusses Mitt Romney’s economic proposals. Glenn Loury with Brink Lindsey (Kauffman Foundation) about Brink’s new book Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter and More Unequal. Louis Putterman writes on Senate tax policy. Glenn Loury and John McWhorter (Columbia University) discuss affirmative action and the racial achievement gap on The Glenn Show on bloggingheads.tv. In a CNNMoney survey, Adjunct Professor David Wyss says Ryan's Medicare plans would transfer the costs to the elderly. Research done by John Tyler, Professor of Education and Economics, and his colleage Eric Taylor from Stanford shows that providing teachers formalized feedback makes them better. Glenn Loury is one of two Brown faculty recently appointed to the National Academy of Sciences' Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration committee.
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