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“The purpose of this report is to provide an extensive overview on the status of undergraduate women at MIT. The findings are supported by data from the MIT Office of Institutional Research, focus groups, and the Undergraduate Experience Survey, a survey implemented specifically for this report. We hope that the findings of this report and its recommendations …
“This site provides National foundation-level geospatial data within the open public domain that can be useful to support community preparedness, resiliency, research, and more. HIFLD Open represents the initial evolutionary first step to provide online access to HIFLD Data. HIFLD Open provides publicly available datasets previously contained in HSIP 2015. These 270+ public domain datasets …
Basak, Suleyman and Buffa, Andrea M., A Theory of Operational Risk (February 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2737178 “We study the dynamic decision making of a financial institution in the presence of a novel implementation friction that gives rise to operational risk. We distinguish between internal and external operational risks depending on whether the …
Language after Liftoff: Fed Communication Away from the Zero Lower Bound – by Michael Feroli, David Greenlaw, Peter Hooper, Frederic S. Mishkin, Amir Sufi. February 26, 2016. “This paper examines the Federal Reserve’s communication strategy to see how well it has worked and how it can be improved. It argues that Federal Reserve communication when …
Pew – “The online discussion forum, Reddit, launched in 2005, is proving to be one of the more news-oriented social spaces on the Web. While it reaches a relatively small slice of the population, a large majority of its users report getting news there, and Reddit can drive substantial attention to news events. A new …
Pitching a Level Playing Field: Women and Leadership in Sports by Barbara Kotschwar, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Tyler Moran, Peterson Institute for International Economics, December 2015. “While women’s presence in the leadership ranks of international sporting bodies has increased over the past decade, women continue to be underrepresented relative to their involvement in sports. Seeing qualified …
NALP [National Association for Law Placement] – Perspectives on 2015 Law Student Recruiting: “Entry-level Law Firm Recruiting Activity Again Becomes Brisk Seven years after the Great Recession – Entry-level law firm recruiting activity continues to increase, with higher levels of activity measured in the spring, summer, and fall of 2015 than in 2014. Over the …
ABA Journal – Minority women are disappearing from BigLaw–and here’s why by Liane Jackson: “…Eighty-five percent of minority female attorneys in the U.S. will quit large firms within seven years of starting their practice. According to the research and personal stories these women share, it’s not because they want to leave, or because they “can’t …
OED – Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2016 Enhancing Regional Ties. DOI:10.1787/saeo-2016-en. “The annual Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India examines Asia’s regional economic growth, development and regional integration process.”
Tonry, Michael, The Absence of Equality and Human Dignity Values Makes American Sentencing Systems Fundamentally Different from Those in Other Western Countries (February 23, 2016). 45 Crime & Justice, 2016; Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-08. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2736961 “Concern for equality and human dignity is largely absent from American sentencing. …
Google Official Blog: “The web is an increasingly critical tool for news organizations, allowing them to communicate faster, research more easily, and disseminate their work to a global audience. Often it’s the primary distribution channel for critical, investigative work that shines a light into the darkest corners of society and the economy—the kind of reporting …
“The Rosa Parks Collection at the Library of Congress has been digitized and is now online. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs, is on loan to the Library for 10 years from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The Library received the materials in late 2014, formally opened them to researchers in …
