Sentences with phrase «economics professor from»

According to an academic research paper by Andrew Leigh, an economics professor from ANU; applicants with names that sound Middle Eastern or Chinese need to submit a whopping 50 % more applications in order to enjoy the same number of call backs as candidates that have an Anglo sounding name.

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This is counter to the claims continuously made by VAM proponents, including folks like Thomas Kane — economics professor from Harvard University who directed the $ 45 million worth of Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Yun Chang - hyun, an economics professor from the University of Seoul, said, «The latest idea to ban it all seems to have come out of a fear that when the bubble bursts and things go wrong, it will be all on the government.»

Economics professors from Princeton to Yale also lent their optimistic voices in support.

Not exact matches

After all, the former economics professor who is now president of the Hussman Investment Trust has made a name for himself by repeatedly predicting a stock market decline exceeding 60 % and forecasting a full decade of negative equity returns — and yet here we sit just 9 % from record highs, even after some bouts of heavy selling.

On Jan. 11, Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty and his colleagues from the Equality of Opportunity Project spoke at a conference held by the Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings Institution about new findings on who becomes inventors in the U.S.

The provocative documentary, Inside Job, brought embarrassing attention to professors who profit from unreported consulting and directorship deals with companies and organizations and then weigh in as «objective» observers on key policy issues in economics and financial regulation.

Co-author Joanna Lahey, an associate professor of economics at Texas A&M University, said the study was a way of exploring the «snowball» method of paying off debts from smallest to largest.

Narayana Kocherlakota, an economics professor at the University of Rochester and the former head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, reckons the U.S. economy is suffering from a severe lack of optimism.

But, Nick Economides, professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business, said it's hard to go from four companies to three companies without increasing prices.

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of opeconomics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of opEconomics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

Clearly, better problem solving abilities and boosted creativity will only be good for your business career, but if you're still not convinced of the benefits of international travel, a whole host of nomadic entrepreneurs, bloggers, and economics professors (and more economics professors) have expressed why they feel travel is valuable for reasons ranging from conquering fear to heading off future regrets and challenging our bias for the status quo.

Economics professor Nicholas Bloom and graduate student James Liang offered call - center workers of Liang's travel website, Ctrip, the opportunity to work from home for nine months.

But as of 2010, the mean and median net worth of Americans was still down 50 percent from the precrisis peak, mainly because of the decline in home values, according to Edward Wolff, an economics professor at New York University.

While cities and states can certainly reduce their emissions from existing sources, energy technology innovation is a critical part of combating climate change, said Akshaya Jha, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in energy and environmental economics.

A recent study led by Professor Andrew Oswald, Dr. Eugenio Proto, and Dr. Daniel Sgroi from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick investigated the link between happiness and productivity.

The research carried out by two economics professors used market research data from Dun & Bradstreet, as well as numbers from the U.S. Census, to examine how male - and female - owned businesses are distributed geographically within 35 metropolitan regions.

At 31 years old, I'm 3 classes away from my undergraduate, have run and lost a State Senate race, can debate Hayek and Keynes with economics Professors, debate Nietzsche and Schopenhauer with philosophy professors, and talk occupy politics with working class youth, unemployed workers and homeless bums on the streets of Atlanta.

Several years back, I had the opportunity to take a directed reading course from John Smithin. In addition to being a long - time member of the Progressive Economics Forum, John is a York University Professor in both the Department of Economics and the Schulich School of Business.

A prominent convert to this emerging belief is Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University near Washington and author of «The Great Stagnation,» a 2011 best seller, who has gone from doomsayer to a decidedly more optimistic perspective.

From 2002 to 2010, he lived in Asia, serving as Head of Economics in the National University of Singapore, and from 2009 to 2010 was Professor in the Center for Human Capital and Labor Economics Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics in BeijFrom 2002 to 2010, he lived in Asia, serving as Head of Economics in the National University of Singapore, and from 2009 to 2010 was Professor in the Center for Human Capital and Labor Economics Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijfrom 2009 to 2010 was Professor in the Center for Human Capital and Labor Economics Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing.

Louis - Philippe Rochon Associate professor of Economics — Laurentian University Founding co-Editor — Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter — @Lprochon This story from the CBC on August 14, 2015.

Here's an excerpt from an open letter signed by 250 or so economics professors — myself included — during the 2008 election:

Rubin's curious point in the OpEd is that it wasn't «courses in economics or finance» from his days at Harvard that prepared him «for working at Goldman Sachs and in the government» (notice the almost decade - long stretch at Citigroup is completely missing) but instead «the key was Professor Demos's philosophy course and the conversations about existentialism in coffee shops around campus.»

Now in her ninety - first year, the Professor Emerita of Economics at McGill University has published a new book entitled From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays

Lawrence Summers is a professor of economics at Harvard University and served as the university's president from 2001 to 2006.

Professor Freeman received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006, and in 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.

From 2002 - 2010 he lived in Asia, serving as Head of Economics in the National University of and as Professor in the Center for Human Capital and Labor Economics Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

«I'm not very positive about large concessions or changes that are going to come from China,» said Heiwai Tang, an assistant professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Born and raised in Toronto, Professor Trefler holds degrees in economics from the University of Toronto (BA), Cambridge University (M.Phil) and UCLA (Ph.D).

The university's provost, Andrew Szeri, told complainants that UBC will not bow to requests to stop Tom Davidoff, an economics professor at the Sauder School of Business, from speaking up about property taxation policies.

From Monday, Justice John Mansfield, the president of the Australian Competition Tribunal, Novartis group general counsel Ray Steinwall and University of South Australia economics professor David Round — who were on Friday named as members of the tribunal reviewing the deal — will begin to digest Mr Helou's great big pitch: that the benefits of increasing scale by allowing the nation's biggest dairy processor to acquire smaller rival Warrnambool Cheese & Butter outweigh any destruction to local competition.

this club, under his tutelage, has ruffled a lot of feathers over the years and now it's coming home to roost... his arrogance has rubbed many the wrong way, but winning provided the perfect tonic to cure all ills... whether largely self - created or a byproduct of all the media attention, Wenger seemed to embrace his cult - like status, which would eventually be his downfall... he claimed that his club was different... more of an extended family than a footballing club and only those with what he deemed as «special» qualities could even hope to join such an exclusive club... these «qualities» were hailed by most, especially as the wins kept rolling in... but with exclusivity comes a certain amount of cockiness, which can be somewhat healthy in a highly competitive environment if it comes from a honest place... it wouldn't take long for the fans to embrace their bespectacled former economics professor, going so far as to suggest he could do no wrong... but this fairy tale couldn't last forever

Trinity College Dublin economics professor John O'Hagan didn't think much of it when he hadn't heard in weeks from the third - year student he'd hired i -LRB-...)

The story in question, from Continental / United Airlines's Hemispheres magazine, features Brian Wansink, a Cornell University professor who specializes in behavioral economics and consumer behavior — especially human eating behavior.

Before that he served for 30 years in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where from 1991 he was the Montague Burton Professor.

Most of its fourteen members are university professors, mainly from the areas of political science, economics and constitutional / international law).

Cheri McGrath, a member of the Milwaukee County Commission for Disabled Persons, speaks at an RTA rally Tuesday flanked by Lyle Balistreri (from left), president of the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council; Julia Taylor, president of the Greater Milwaukee Committee; and Michael Rosen, professor of economics at the Milwaukee Area Technical College.

Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., associate professor of health care policy at UAB, used health behavior data for whites and blacks from Alabama and Mississippi taken from the national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and took a method used in economics to analyze gender wage disparities.

Prashant Bharadwaj, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California - San Diego who studies development and labor economics, said the research helps fill an important gap by looking at persistent, moderate pollution like that from agricultural fires.

Professor Eugenio Proto, from the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol, said: «We wanted to explore what factors make us effective social animals.

Speaking about the research, Professor Mireia Jofre - Bonet from the Department of Economics at City, University of London and lead author of the study, said: «Our study confirms the close relationship between health and the economic environment as we found that the 2008 Great Recession led to a decrease in risky behaviour, such as smoking and drinking, but also an increase in the likelihood of obesity, diabetes and mental health problems.

«It would be very hard to go backwards on that — they would first need to withdraw and re-propose, and by the time everything is resolved, the year would be more or less over,» says James Stock, a Harvard University economics professor who served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers from February 2013 to July 2014.

In a study of how recent Chinese imports affected the U.S. labor force, the researchers found that counties with higher rates of self - employment suffered fewer negative effects, such as reduced job growth, from increased imports than counties with lower self - employment rates, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

Assistant professor Ariel Singerman and associate professor Pilar Useche, faculty members in the UF / IFAS food and resource economics department, surveyed about 200 growers to estimate their losses from the disease.

«For the older group, the ACA made health insurance much more affordable, because the law limits insurers from charging older adults no more than triple the cost for the same health insurance plans as younger adults,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at the Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

«You're definitely going to need to expand loading and export facilities and bolster the strength of your rail lines from North Dakota west and east,» said Bruce McCarl, a regents professor with the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University.

An assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, she has been using data from new surveillance technology to research the disparity between the number of recorded gunshot sounds and the number of reported incidents of gun violence.