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Archives for December 2016

DACA Renewal Benefit and Wine Tasting Please January 11th Lincoln Center Atrium Room

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 Please join us to discuss the future of President Obama’s DACA program and what Universities can do to improve the prospects and protect DACA recipients in New York and other Sanctuary cities

*photo: KJ Dakin , Yes Magazine, Vineyard worker, Luz, looks on as dusk falls across Sonoma County, where she has been working on farms since she came to California six years ago

After this 45 minute roundtable join us in sampling some wonderful small-production artisanal wines of place curated by Nolita Wine Merchants*  $200 per person See event flyer

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is President Obama’s executive action program that allows nearly 750,000 immigrants who arrive as children and graduate from high school work, open bank accounts, travel etc. To stay eligible those with DACA status should apply for renewal and related benefits before President Obama leaves office. Your tax-deductible donation will help eligible New Yorkers from any country pay DACA related renewal fees with free legal assistance generously provided by Citizenship Now. To purchase tickets, go to the “start here” web page at the end of this sentence, check the radio box next to Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute, as shown. The APEM logo below appears, scroll down to this event and choose the number of tickets and payment method, start here.

Sponsors: NY Association of Mexican Professionals and Entrepreneurs, the Fordham Center for International Policy Studies, the Feerick Center for Social Justice, and CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies*Wine tasting curated by Nolita Wine Merchants

 

 

CIPS-Elephants and Michaelango’s bon voyage Party Dec 15th 7:30 & 9:30pm

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Please join us in the Economics Department Conference room to say goodbye to students and faculty leaving before next week’s official Economics Party (same location .  Everyone is welcome to discuss Elephant shapes with plenty of Michaelanglo’s pizza. To mark this remarkable moment in history,  we review and discuss the Elephant diagram (briefly) starting with Chris Giles three minute FT video (not cats).  Does this now famous global growth incidence curve really explain recent populist backlash?  Is it an Elephant or a Mastodon?

Don’t worry there is a happy ending… average OECD middle class workers incomes did not actually fall, they gained less, perhaps relative deprivation matters too…

What can we do?  Nothing right now.  So please come share a wonderful festive-beverage with Michelangelo’s pizza, freshly delivered at 7:20 and 9:20pm…   (thanks finance guy).

If possible please RSVP to Anglea or gradecon@fordham.edu but come join us anyway, another pizza is just a phone call away. It will be fun.


Growth incidence curves were very rare a decade ago. Now we have a famous one that explains everything and looks like an elephant.  Or does it?  Come to the party and see.

Just in case you miss the party, here is the video and a few holiday readings (avoid the original 2015 World Bank article, they don’t even call it an elephant).  Here is the confusing Chris Giles video, but at least he  draws the elephant in real time…

Actually the best short summary is the Economists’ “Shooting an Elephant” which includes the real elephant photo above and this very clear chart, almost all we need really, except now we have a mastodon, not a modern elephant, as in the original.

More holiday reading: reassuring findings, but someone should have told the voters… Adam Corlett is thorough enough to elicit a response from  Lakner and Milanov the same month (September).

References (sorry, not very cheerful i know):

Corlett, Adam. (2016) “Examining an elephant: globalisation and the lower middle class of the rich world.” Resolution Foundation, London.

DESA, U. N(2013). “Inequality matters. Report on the World Social Situation 2013.” New York, United Nations.

Economist (2016) Global inequality: Shooting an elephant via@TheEconomist

Lakner, Christoph, and Branko Milanovic (2016). “Response to Adam Corlett’s “Examining an elephant: globalisation and the lower middle class of the rich world”.

Milanovic, Branko, and Christopher Lakner (2015) “Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession” The World Bank Economic Review 30 (2): 203-232. doi: 10.1093/wber/lhv03 http://class.povertylectures.com/WB_publication.pdf

Milanovic, Branko (2011). Worlds apart: Measuring international and global inequality. Princeton University Press.

Milanovic, Branko (2016) Global inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization, Harvard University Press.

Piketty, Thomas(2014). “Capital in the 21st Century.” Cambridge: Harvard University Figures

Porter, Eduardo (2014). A global boom, but only for some. New York Times.

Porter, Eduardo (2016). On Trade, Angry Voters Have a Point, NY Times, March 16th Wynne, Mark A2011). “Will China ever become as rich as the US?” Economic Letter, 6.

Giles and Dannon (2016) Globalisation ‘not to blame’ for income woes, study says Financial Times, Sept 13th 2016 Video version

 

 

First Fordham Economics Development Conference September 16, 2016

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Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
South Lounge, Leon Lowenstein Center
113 West 60th Street, New York

8.45-9.30
Breakfast and Registration

9.30-9.45
Welcome remarks by Darryl McLeod Chair of the Economics Department

9.45-10.20
Session I Chair: Prakarsh Singh
Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress
Author: Paul Anand, Open University
Discussant: Sophie Mitra, Economics Department Fordham University

10.20-10.55
Session I Chair: Prakarsh Singh
Agricultural Fires and Child Health: Evidence from Brazil
Extended abstract draft
Author: Tom Vogl, Princeton University
Discussant: Jorge Aguero, University of Connecticut

10.55-11.10
Coffee Break

11.10-11.45
Session II Chair: Andrew Simons
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health:
Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi workers in India
Author: Prakarsh Singh, Amherst College
Discussant: Tom Vogl, Princeton University

11.45-12.20
Session II Chair: Andrew Simons
Cognitive, Socio-emotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality:
Evidence from India
Author: Subha Mani, Fordham University
Discussant: Resul Cesur, University of Connecticut

12.20-1.00
Lunch

1.00-2.00
Keynote Lecture:
Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries:
Prevalence, Associations/Impacts over the Life Cycle and Determinants
Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania

2.00-2.35
Session III Chair: Resul Cesur
The Importance of Educational Credentials:
Schooling Decisions and Returns in Modern China
Author: Alex Eble, Teacher’s College, Columbia University
Discussant: Maulik Jagnani, Cornell University

2.35-3.10
Session III Chair: Resul Cesur
Identifying Critical Periods in Human Capital Development Beyond Early Childhood:
Evidence from Rwanda
Author: Jorge Aguero, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Catalina Herrera Almanza, Northeastern University

3.10-3.25
Coffee Break

3.25-4.00
Session IV Chair: Subha Mani
Temperature and Human Capital:
Short and Long-run Evidence from India
Author: Maulik Jagnani, Cornell University
Discussant: Alex Eble, Teacher’s College, Columbia University

Session IV Chair: Subha Mani
Early Childbearing, School Attainment and Cognitive Skills:
Evidence from Madagascar
Author: Catalina Herrera Almanza, Northeastern University
Discussant: Andrew Simons, Fordham University

5.10-5.25
Concluding remarks

NOTE: Within each 35-minute session, the speaker presents for 20 minutes, the discussant for up to 10 minutes, and the audience asks questions for 5 minutes.