• Grad Schools Probably Shouldn’t Have a Lottery

    Update 9:30AM: I forgot to link to this post from earlier in reference to professor Jackson. Mistake corrected. Also, to be clear, the kind of market I refer to at the bottom is a labor market. Having just started work on an (awesome) research project on the history of College Houses at Penn, my mind seems increasingly drawn to higher [...]

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  • Specter vs Sestak tomorrow!!

    Hey all, May 18 is the Pennsylvania Democratic primaries featuring Senator Arlen Specter and Congressman Joe Sestak. PPR had the pleasure of doing in-person interviews with both candidates in our past few issues. If you are unfamiliar with the race, check out this front-page article on Politico.com: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37369.html Best, Bob

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  • We’re Back!

    Hello everybody! You may have noticed a certain…silence…around here in the last couple weeks. That’s because we were all hiding in the library or our rooms, studying for exams and writing papers. Well, not the whole time. But enough of it that we weren’t blogging, anyway. But now all that’s over, and we’ve had a couple days to sleep it [...]

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  • The Road to Disproportionality

    As i’ve written earlier, the United Kingdom faces a general election in just under a week (on the 6th of May). With that in mind I thought i’d take a break from my preferred procrastination technique of watching episodes of Friends to post on that again. In particular, I’d like to speak on how the UK election could serve as [...]

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