As the Left vs Right infighting continues, I wanted to mention that my department is hiring this year, and also point out that Arizona is the ideal location for all your Left vs Right needs. We got libertarian cowboys and new age crystal-and-vortex types, cranky Michigan republicans and Minnesota democrats (also cranky) down for […]
Via Volokh we come across the latest in a long line of nonsense about whether the left or the right has a monopoly on virtue x or vice y. (Surely that should be vice x. Never mind.) This time it’s Ann Althouse chancing her arm:
To be a great artist is inherently right wing. A great […]
Let’s say you’ve already read Tim Burke’s “Should I Go to Grad School?” and pushed on past the short answer. (“No.”) Then it’s time to read Fontana Labs’ Twelve-Step Guide to life while you’re there. Your experience of a graduate program will depend in part on each of (1) The field you’re in, (2) The […]
What with all the kerfuffle about the NYT article on Ivy League women and their labor market / parenting plans, I took a look at some BLS data on long-term trends in earnings patterns within families, and in mothers’ labor force participation. Here are a couple of figures I created that capture some of what’s […]
David Goldenberg at Gelf Magazine has a copy of the survey that Louise Story conducted as the basis for her irritating article about Ivy League women and their plans for motherhood. Doing a reliable survey is hard, and by far the two biggest difficulties are sample selectivity (when the probability of participation is related to […]
Here’s an irritating piece from the New York Times about how high-achieving women students at elite schools are planning to quit their jobs and have children when they’re a bit older:
Cynthia Liu is precisely the kind of high achiever Yale wants: … So will she join the long tradition of famous Ivy League graduates? Not […]
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