Category Archives: Burkina Faso

And it is not just their obsessive listening to Pharell Williams! In short, “it’s remarkable” how just the presence of children seems to protect against declining happiness, Ifcher said.Herbst and Ifcher offer three theories why parents are becoming happier—and what … Continue reading →

Girls are bombarded with messages about how they should look.  The male gaze is always upon them. Most boys, and men, barely look in the mirror.  Dandruff?  Really?  Oh, I’ll brush it off.  Comb-over is not in style?  Oh, but … Continue reading →

The author, Coral Davenport, needs to go to an LRA meeting (Lazy Reporters Anonymous)…. “Hi my name is Coral and writing that the Sahara was expanding through Mali could have been wrong so I added “slow” and that way nobody … Continue reading →

“Tribes are killing each other over water today,” Mr. Kerry said. “Think of what happens if you have massive dislocation, or the drying up of the waters of the Nile, of the major rivers in China and India. The intelligence … Continue reading →

One of my undergraduate student’s wants to use the World Bank’s Gender database for a class project.  Turns out that the data is in “long” format.  Each variable and country is a row, and the years are columns.  Most statistical … Continue reading →

Why four? Why not.  Hell isn’t empty. What if the oil billions had been distributed evenly to private citizens of South Sudan (as some people including yours truly advocated).  The statist “gimmie the consulting job” elite (both national and international) … Continue reading →

It’s the sweet smell of reasonableness… After overcoming years of fiscal dysfunction that stemmed in part from an antitax ballot referendum, Gov. Jerry Brown is trying to call California voters to the ballot again — this time to approve a … Continue reading →

Le Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP) a réuni ses militants pour sa première session du Conseil national samedi à Ouagadougou alors que la classe politique burkinabè est profondément divisée sur des questions telles que le référendum et … Continue reading →

A couple days ago on the blog I remarked on the issue of authenticity in my short review of Tarquin Hall’s Indian detective story. I wish I could say I inspired Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution to then do the … Continue reading →

Hope it comes to Netflix soon… looks interesting.

Le 21 avril 1944, les femmes françaises accèdent au droit de vote. Elles ne pourront cependant l’exercer pleinement qu’à partir du 29 avril 1945, date des élections municipales, premier scrutin d’après-guerre. Il y a seulement 70 ans, en vertu de … Continue reading →

################################################################################## # Code for using World Development Indicators to understand missing women problem # http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators # You have to set your directory below with setwd() ################################################################################## # Preliminaries # This clears any data in memory etc rm(list=ls()) # This set … Continue reading →

# Thanks to Bill Sundstrom for the mtable formatting code # input data into R data <- read.table(“tenureinsecurity.csv”, header=TRUE, sep=”,”) # Tell R to assume survey1 is dataset from now until detach attach(data) # Run two regressions fit1 <- lm(yield … Continue reading →

# input data into R readincamp = read.csv(“competitivereadingcamp.csv”) # Tell R to assume readincamp is dataset from now until detach attach(readincamp ) # Summarize data with summarySE command # Source; the excellent http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Plotting_means_and_error_bars_%28ggplot2%29/ # To do this have to install.packages(“bear”) … Continue reading →

# These are some of the different ways to do the calculation that social scientists probably # do most frequently; Calculate means for different groups or conditions # input data into R (the data is on some reading camps run … Continue reading →

# I find it helpful to have all the packages I use in a single R file rather than # having them in each script # I am sure that will change as i start using ever more packages # … Continue reading →

(from Guide to R For SCU Economics Students Version 2.2, March 28, 2014 © William A. Sundstrom, 2012, 2013, 2014 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) To get started, you need to download and install two … Continue reading →