*************************************** Research Workshop in Applied Statistics *************************************** Please join us this Wednesday @ noon at CBRSS, the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, 34 Kirkland Street, Rm 22, for a presention by Paul Peterson & William Howell. Their paper, "Latest Results from the New York City Voucher Experiment", is available at: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov3009/Calendar/Peterson.Howell.pdf Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research on education policy. He is a former director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and of the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Previously at the University of Wisconsin, in July 2002 William Howell joined the Government Department at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor. Howell has written on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency. He is the recipient of the 2001 E.E. Schattschneider award for the best dissertation in American politics, by the American Political Science Association; and the 2001 prize for the best dissertation on the presidency, by the Center for Presidential Studies at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service.He is the author of Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action, Princeton University Press 2003. Howell is currently working with Jon Pevehouse (University of Wisconsin) on a project that examines how domestic political institutions constrain the president's ability to exercise force abroad. As always, lunch will be provided. Contact information, the current schedule, and previous presentations may be found at the course web site: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov3009/ ****************************************** The Research Workshop in Applied Statistics is a forum for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present and discuss work in progress and exchange ideas. It is intended as a tour of Harvard's statistical innovations and applications with weekly stops in different disciplines such as economics, epidemiology, medicine, political science, psychology, public policy, public health, sociology and statistics. The topics of papers presented in previous years included missing data, survey analysis, Bayesian simulation, sample selection, and models for election and portfolio choice. Faculty and student participants in the workshop present their current projects, and guest speakers also give occasional presentations. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for informal interaction between graduate students and faculty from a variety of disciplines. Course credit is available for students as either an upper-level Government or Sociology class. Lunch is provided. If you are interested, note that all events are held at noon, in Room 22, Center for Basic Research in Social Sciences (CBRSS, 34 Kirkland St., this is the yellow building across the street from William James Hall). Contact information and previous presentations may be found at the course web site: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov3009/ To join the gov3009 mailing list, send e-mail to gov3009-l-request(a)fas.harvard.edu with the following text message: subscribe end