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Paul Niehaus of UC San Diego to speak on "The Marginal Rate of Corruption in Public Programs"

[Posted Feb 24, 2011]
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Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego, will speak on "The Marginal Rate of Corruption in Public Programs." Thursday, March 3rd, 3:40-5pm, 368A Heady Hall.

Radio Iowa features Orazem on public/private sector worker pay

[Posted Feb 24, 2011]
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Professor Peter Orazem was featured in a Radio Iowa piece on public/private sector worker pay. He was asked to respond to a report released by the Iowa Policy Project, which said that public sector workers make less in pay and benefits than those in the private sector.

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Department of Economics alumni Schipper named new state banking superintendent

[Posted Feb 23, 2011]
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Former Department of Economics (BS ag business, 1972) alumni James M. Schipper was recently appointed by Governor Terry Branstad as Iowa's new superintendent of banking. The Des Moines Register recently featured an interview with Schipper, written by Adam Belz.

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Jolly receives distinguished service honor from ASFMRA

[Posted Feb 23, 2011]
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Professor Bob Jolly recently received a "Distinguished Service to Iowa Agriculture" award from the Iowa chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA).

Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics

[Posted Feb 23, 2011]
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(From Jackie Kings daily E-Media recap, ISU News Service)

Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, has taken a few calls recently from reporters: John Pocock, Corn and Soybean Digest, about the soybean market and the acreage competition for 2011; Kurt Allemeier, Quad City Times, about food prices; and Orlan Love, Cedar Rapids Gazette, about crop prices and demand.

Frankel featured in ISU News Service article

[Posted Feb 23, 2011]
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Professor David Frankel's recent work on segregation measurement was featured in an article this week through ISU News Service, written by Dan Kuester.

Weekly media connections for the Department of Economics:

[Posted Feb 17, 2011]
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(From Jackie King's daily E-Media recap, ISU News Service.)

Ag society awards scholarships to three Ag Business majors

[Posted Feb 16, 2011]
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Three students majoring in Ag Business at ISU were recently awarded scholarships from the Iowa chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA).

Scholarship recipients included Andy Pringnitz (Ag Business), Scott Henry (Ag Business), Matt McLaughlin (Ag Business - pictured), and Scott Shannon (Agronomy). The scholarships awarded were each $1250.

Learning Communities article features Ag Business major

[Posted Feb 16, 2011]
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ISU's learning communities have received recent attention, both locally and nationally, as a support that improves retention of freshman students. The Department of Economics ' Ebby Luvaga is the learning community coordinator for the Ag Business major. Senior Ag Business major Carly Cummings (pictured left) is a peer mentor featured in a recent article through ISU News Service.

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Measuring school segregation: Iowa State University economists "build a better mousetrap" to capture vital information

[Posted Feb 14, 2011]
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David Frankel

Frankel (above) and Volij's new measure revealed that segregation between black and white students is about as high today as it was 20 years ago.

School segregation has been measured since the 1950s when public schools in the United States were first integrated. While original methods of measurement were adequate for the times, they no longer accurately capture the nation’s rapidly changing, multiethnic public school systems.

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