Word: ascherman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...senior at MIT and the lead MIT representative at the caucus. The panels offered several notable speakers, including the chief justice of the island’s Supreme Court, Federico Hernandez Denton ’66; the president of the University of Puerto Rico, Antonio Garcia Padilla; and Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard Freeman. The discussion focused on several aspects of the Puerto Rican economy, including real estate, heathcare, and education. The final panel, “Branding Puerto Rico,” debated how the island should be presented to other nations. One panelist, Mickey Espada, director...
...mail. “It was not just that people bought more of the goods once they were labeled, but they bought even more when we raised prices by 10 percent and still more when we raised prices by 20 percent.” Richard B. Freeman, Ascherman professor of economics, said that the study was the most conclusive social labeling experiment done to date. Freeman has also done research on social labeling and its potential to inform consumers’ decisions. “Other social labeling experiments have yielded weak results, and this study builds on them...
...light on the president’s thinking.But perhaps the most significant line of the speech did not appear anywhere in the president’s notes and went largely unnoticed in the ensuing uproar. It was his very first sentence.Summers began with a nod to Richard Freeman, the Ascherman professor of economics, who organized the conference: “I asked Richard, when he invited me to come here and speak, whether he wanted an institutional talk about Harvard’s policies toward diversity or whether he wanted some questions asked and some attempts at provocation?...
...National Bureau of Economic Research working paper released this month, Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman argued that the United States has a diminishing advantage in these fields, due mostly to the declining number of science and engineering degrees awarded in the U.S. compared to the number awarded abroad. Europe, Japan, and—surprisingly, according to Freeman—China and India are all outdoing the U.S. in this regard, the report said...
...Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, who organized and attended the conference, says Summers’ ordering of the various causes was the most controversial aspect of his speech. “My sense would be that most people disagreed with what seemed to be the weighting put on it,” says Freeman. “There seems to be a lot of indicators men have more variance than women,” Freeman says. “I’m not sure that irritated people because it’s largely a fact. Making...