I have been fortunate to attend a couple of conferences and meetings recently and to present work in progress as well as to meet with people in diverse fields – outside of economics – to hear about what other folks are doing in teaching quantitative courses, data analysis, and research...
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Books in 2018
A brief comment to myself about the books I’ve read in 2018. My top three books were:
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The July 2017 Jobs Report and Race
Scraping the BLS site to plot unemployment
The jobs report came out yesterday (7 July 2017) and I wanted to check out what the unemployment numbers look like by race, because, you know, I’m interested in race in the USA (see here). I couldn’t find a quick figure to compare the employment numbers across race groups, which...
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Race and Wealth Inequality in the USA
Plotting data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (2013)
I’ve been interested in race and inequality (or “group inequality”) for some time (see the Background section. The recent publication of the 2013 Survey of Income and Participation presents a window into what wealth inequality looks like in the USA. What can we do with the survey data?
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How to set up a site like mine
Even when you're a dilettante
I needed to re-do my website. But, I’m not particularly good at understanding html, github, and related issue. Nonetheless, even a dilettante like me was able to set up a jekyll-enabled site to replace my old site and add a blog. So, what outcomes did I want and how did...
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