Archive Index - Jane the Actuary

September 15, 2014

Steven Salaita’s dissertation

Not much in the way of new developments since I first wrote about the Steven...

September 15, 2014

From today’s Tribune

Mondays, when the Trib features lots of wire reports and general human interest stories because...

September 13, 2014

What should student loans look like?

(This is just a draft, but I'll post this for comment as I work on...

September 13, 2014

The History of Helicopter Parents

(Note: I originally wrote this on September 11th, but I'm trying to get back to...

September 12, 2014

Second base = 40 years? The human cost of “fighting sexual assault” (plus bonus reflections on the legal system)

(I originally wrote this post this morning, and am now re-writing it in light of...

September 10, 2014

Have you been following the Steven Salaita story?

The short version of this story is that a professor who was slated to begin...

September 09, 2014

Home-cooked meals: engaging with Marcotte

Look, I know I'm late to the party. Everybody's been busy mocking Amanda Marcotte for...

September 08, 2014

How Many “Jane the Actuary”s are there?

The other day, I had an idea for a project: rather than writing about whatever...

September 08, 2014

A new CDC report: crying wolf?

After reading through the CDC report that's the source of the "1 in 5 college...

September 07, 2014

In which I begin to learn that high school has changed – not always for the better

I'd mentioned periodically that my oldest son has started high school, though I can't remember...

September 06, 2014

Question of the day

Just for fun, for my fellow armchair economists, some speculation: if we eliminated the minimum...

September 05, 2014

The 1/5 statistic: reading the source document

After my first "insta-lanche" earlier today (for those who don't know, that means that Glen...

September 05, 2014

Campus Sexual Assault: I’ll believe it’s a crisis when. . .

This has been floating around for a while: "Columbia student drags mattress with her everywhere...

September 04, 2014

At $15/hr, what happens to the Wal-Mart greeter?

Just a quick thought for the night: The pro-high-minimum wage line is generally that workers...

September 04, 2014

Do you hate tipping as much a I do?

In today's Trib: an article on the ins and outs of tipping.And here's what bugged...

September 04, 2014

From today’s Tribune: “U. of I. considers boost to financial aid”

. . . because enrollment is down, or, at least, enrollment of Illinois freshmen is...

September 02, 2014

Back from Michigan, part 3: Schools of Choice and Charter Schools

So while at my folks' last weekend (is it a regionalism of some kind to...

September 02, 2014

Is the $15 minimum wage just for fast food workers?

Let's start with the fact that I find the idea of a $15 minimum wage...

September 01, 2014

Wind of Change

Where were you when the Wall fell? People a generation older than I am will...

September 01, 2014

Back from “Detroit”*, part 2: on Michiganders

The asterisk above is because, of course, I wasn't actually in Detroit. Don't be silly....

September 01, 2014

Back from “Detroit”, part 1: update on Dad

So we were at mom and dad's over Labor Day weekend, and I thought I'd...

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