The latest research from the National Bureau of Economic Research:
1. Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits
by Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Wojciech Kopczuk #14301 (LS PE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14301
2. Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
by Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani #14311 (CH)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14311
3. How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
by Jennifer Hunt, Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle #14312 (LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14312
4. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging
by David Neumark #14317 (AG)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14317
5. International evidence on well-being
by David G. Blanchflower #14318 (LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14318
6. Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
by Craig E. Landry, Andreas Lange, John A. List, Michael K. Price, Nicholas G. Rupp #14319 (EEE PE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14319
7. Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets
by David Lee, Emmanuel Saez #14320 (LS PE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14320
8. Capital Flow Bonanzas: An Encompassing View of the Past and Present
by Carmen M. Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhart #14321 (IFM)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14321
9. Phillips Curve Inflation Forecasts
by James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson #14322 (EFG ME)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14322
10. Strategic Interaction Among Heterogeneous Price-Setters In An Estimated DSGE Model
by Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14323 (EFG ME)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14323
11. The Litigation of Financial Innovations
by Josh Lerner #14324 (CF PR)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14324
12. Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles
by V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, Laurel Clayton #14325 (EEE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14325
13. Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization
by Jonathan D. Ketcham, Kosali Simon #14326 (HC HE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14326
14. Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
by Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc #14327 (LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14327
15. Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
by Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak, Barbara S. Schone #14328 (LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14328
16. Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence
by Robert E. Hall, Alan B. Krueger #14329 (EFG LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14329
17. Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
by Jeffrey Liebman, Richard Zeckhauser #14330 (HC HE PE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14330
18. Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity
by Phillip Leslie, Paul Oyer #14331 (CF IO LE LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14331
19. Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints
by Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Ralph Rogalla #14332 (AG LS PE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14332
20. Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
by David M. Cutler, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Tom Vogl #14333 (AG HC HE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14333
21. The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies
by Peter Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom, Thomas J. Weiss #14334 (DAE)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14334
22. The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
by Kaivan Munshi, Mark Rosenzweig #14335 (EFG PE POL)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14335
23. International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility
by Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel #14336 (IFM)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14336
24. Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
by David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Bert Van Landeghem #14337 (HC HE LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14337
25. Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
by Victor Lavy #14338 (ED LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14338
26. Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management
by Patrick Bolton, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Laura Veldkamp #14339 (CF)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14339
27. Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets
by Isaac Ehrlich, William A. Hamlen Jr., Yong Yin #14340 (AP ED LS)http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14340
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I just spent 30+ minutes suffering through some of a WOSU special featuring leftist TV reporter Judy Woodruff repeating for the b-zillionth time all the lies about education in America. She even had clips of horrid Chester Finn spouting off. At the exact moment when my surfing landed me there I am quite sure the clip was one showing a Finnish exchange student in the Olentangy School District. She was explaining that this year spent in an American school will not count when she returns home to Finland. Our schools don't measure up, you see. The high school student daughter whose parents are hosting the Finn admitted to not knowing where Finland is or whether it's a city in America or a country or what. I guess they imported the girl to teach their daughter some Geography. Judy also featured schools in Cincinnati and Columbus. The Columbus Metro School was featured and it is funded by taxes and Battelle. The program has the same old tired propaganda that has been rammed down our throats for the last forty years. Woodruff is presenting it like it's a brand new revelation. I wonder what we paid for that?
There was a segment about an inner-city school also. That system has a dental office on premises (because children can't learn if they have a toothache) and they also have racks of clothing available so the children have clean clothes to wear. Of course they have meals available for various times of day. Do you suppose they have a doctor and nurse there too? Safe bet. Got to administer those shots and pass out those pills and condoms. Also mentioned was the necessity of mental health care that they make available. All they lack is beds for students to spend the night in. When I grew up my father, who had no insurance, had to pay for our dental care, and our medical care (no insurance) and he clothed us and our mother washed our clothes. We had no shrinks and often carried lunch to school because there wasn't enough money to buy lunch at school. We should have lived in the hood.
When you walk in the building, there's a row of offices. In one are drug counselors. One is for social security. Another, family and child psychologists. Yet another has a doctor and nurse who do well-child exams. … Schools are no longer in the "schooling business," but rather in "human resource development."
— Dr Shirley McCune, then senior director of the Mid-continent Regional Education Laboratory ("Blueprint given for schools of future"; Terry Minteer, Bremerton Sun, October 14, 1989); now employed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Olympia, Washington.
Under the integrated systems approach to education attention is turned to the "whole child" — mentally, physically, and emotionally. Physically and emotionally come under the auspices of health care. Many undoubtedly remember Hillary Rodham Clinton's attempt to foster a socialized health care system for the whole of America. While she failed in her direct effort, her efforts have continued as a back door approach through the schools, through "readiness-to-learn" grants that have established schools as partners with social service agencies, law enforcement, and community networks. Nationwide, Medicaid is coming into the schools at an ever-increasing rate through various avenues; and nationwide, school-based clinics are being established in schools. The goal is that every school will have a school-based clinic.
From www.learn-usa.com
the site of Lynn Stuter.
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
by DCDave
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it didn't happen.
2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the “How dare you?” gambit.
3. Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.” (If they tend to believe the “rumors” it must be because they are simply “paranoid” or “hysterical.”)
4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.
5. Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nutcase,” “ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and, of course, “rumor monger.” Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the “more reasonable” government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own “skeptics” to shoot down.
6. Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).
7. Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
8. Dismiss the charges as “old news.”
9. Come half-clean. This is also known as “confession and avoidance” or “taking the limited hangout route.” This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal “mistakes.” This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken. With effective damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets.
10. Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.
11. Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. E.g. We have a completely free press. If evidence exists that the Vince Foster “suicide” note was forged, they would have reported it. They haven't reported it so there is no such evidence. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press who would report the leak.
12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. E.g. If Foster was murdered, who did it and why?
13. Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or publicizing distractions.
14. Lightly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as “bump and run” reporting.
15. Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the “facts” furnished the public to a plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source.
16. Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5 (e and f), have your own stooges “expose” scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A variation is to pay rich people for the job who will pretend to spend their own money.
17. Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, “What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?” Don't the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.
DCDave presents a very comprehensive list. After reading it, however, I realized that it would be fruitless to ever get into a discussion or debate with him. Any comment or counter-argument made could easily be dismissed as falling into one of the listed categories. Clearly, this comment could be dismissed as being made by one of the government agents that are flooding the internet. Not true, but it does make for a nice neat package.
The lurker is very thorough. Not very thorough when it comes to scrutinizing Fascist Government but he's taking in all the information that opposes it. Hoping to counter it, I suppose. Passing it on to his higher-ups, most likely. They need to know who their opposition is if they are to keep their power.
Now our tax dollars will be used to bail out Freddie and Fannie and AIG and whatever else the Fascists want them for. With this crash going on it will be interesting to see if the dumbed-down masses still vote themselves higher taxes for their government indoctrination centers. Those building may have to be used as flop houses for everybody after they are thrown out of the houses they can no longer afford to pay for.
To 9:20 - I hate to disappoint you, but I'm just killing some time on the internet checking out a variety of stuff. I'm not reporting to anyone. I have no clue who would even be interested.
The Lurker
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