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| Income and Poverty: The Real Story behind the Census Bureau Numbers |
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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| At this AEI event, poverty research consultant Richard Bavier, AEI economist Desmond Lachman, and Urban Institute poverty expert Sheila Zedlewski will discuss the meaning and implications of the 2007 |
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| Aging and Future Health Care Spending |
| Red Herrings, Time to Death, and Insurance Choices |
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Friday, June 27, 2008
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| Swiss economist Peter Zweifel, who argues that the share of the population approaching death is a more important predictor of health status and future health spending than population aging per se, |
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| Why Don't Poor Countries Choose Capitalism? |
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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| Corrupt states are often to blame for sluggish growth; why do electorates put trust in them? Why does corruption heighten the electoral appeal of socialism rather than free enterprise? |
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| Healthy Aging: Europe’s Economic Trump Card? |
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Monday, December 3, 2007
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| Authors Eberstadt and Groth, and discussant Jim Kolbe for aconversation on Europe’s demographics, “healthy aging,” and the policy questions related to these issues. |
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| Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People |
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Monday, October 29, 2007
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| Discussants join John Entine in discussing the role of DNA in transforming our understanding of human potential, and its vast implications for medicine, education, science, and law. |
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| Women and Science |
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Monday, October 1, 2007
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| Are women victims of a widespread unconscious bias in every field of science and engineering, as was stated in a fall 2006 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report? |
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| Is NCLB Leaving Children Behind? |
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Monday, July 16, 2007
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| Economist Derek Neal will discuss with AEI's Charles Murray and analyst Katherine Haley the challenges involved in creating an accountability system with incentives for students. |
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| California's Climate Law: Boon or Boondoggle? |
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
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| The study uses a state-of-the-art modeling system to assess the impacts of the California law under various implementation scenarios. |
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| Work, Taxes, and Entitlements in America and Europe |
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
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| Do taxes and entitlement programs explain the large national differences in work activity and their evolution over time? |
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| Are Law Firms Breaking the Law? |
| Racial and Gender Preferences in Attorney Hiring and Promotion |
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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| Is the widespread use of race and gender as factors in hiring, promotion, and work assignment decisions by America’s premier law firms. legal? Is it good policy? |
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Global Business in Iran: Interactive
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A new AEI web tool, "Global Business in Iran: Interactive," documents major financial transactions with the Islamic Republic between 2000 and 2007. The findings, based on open-source reporting, are organized by country, economic sector, company, and financial institution. The Institute's researchers have documented more than 300 transactions amounting to more than $150 billion. The interactive tool will be updated regularly as new information comes in. |
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