Category Archives: Politics

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 →

Another high school student who survived reported that a crew member named Park Ji-young, 22, had helped teenagers to get life jackets and escape by urging them to jump into the frigid waters of the Yellow Sea where rescue boats … Continue reading →

So… I’m like… I want to adopt Mishkin’s new macroeconomics textbook for my MBA macro class this summer and in the fall… Why? Because I reviewed a chapter of the new edition for Pearson and I liked the approach.  Sure … Continue reading →

From our Faculty Senate president: Ballot Measure #1 asked faculty members to approve or disapprove of the following statement: “The Trustees’ declaration that something as all-encompassing as identity and mission is outside of the shared governance system would break the … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, India’s Supreme Court ruled that the government had to recognize a third gender, one neither male nor female, as an official category. According to the Associated Press, this means access to social welfare services and minority rights protections … Continue reading →

So if they succeed Compaoré would have been in power from 1983 (when he co-led the coup with Sankara that brought the two of them into power) until 2022 (if he takes a six year term from 2016-2022. Let’s see… … Continue reading →

I love how he sings “contemplal” for “contemplar”…