Archive for December, 2009

1/14 Lunch: Rebecca Blank of the Department of Commerce

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

The 2010 Census

The 2010 Census will involve the largest domestic deployment the Federal government has ever undertaken, designed to count the people living in 145 million households in the United States. This talk with discuss the design and implementation of the 2010 Census, including efforts to reach out to historically under-counted populations. There are public debates over a host of substantive issues as we near the beginning of the 2010 Census, including how to characterize and count same-sex couples, the best ways to employ and screen the 1.3 million temporary workers hired to help with the Census, and the established-since-1790 approach of including all residents, citizens and noncitizens, in the count.

Rebecca Blank is the Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs at the Department of Commerce

Update: presentation slides (13MB PPT)

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Call for papers: Pennsylvania Economics Association

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Pennsylvania Economics Association 2010 Annual Conference
Grove City College
Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA
June 3-5, 2010

Interested individuals are encouraged to submit papers for presentation at the 2010 PEA Annual Conference. Registrants also are invited to be paper discussants and organize sessions. Paper proposals may be submitted and registration information obtained through the PEA web site at http://aux.edinboro.edu/pea. The proposal deadline is April 1, 2010. The conference registration deadline is May 1, 2010.

More details available here: Call for Papers – PEA 2010

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