Political Inclusion and Educational Investment

Using exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1993 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a sizable increase in the enrollment rate of male and female school-age children resulting from additional exposure to women leaders. Effects are particularly concentrated among poorer households and those with less- educated proximate role models, and were commensurate with reductions in idle time and household-enterprise employment. There is no evidence for the effects being facilitated by changes in school infrastructure, the labor market, or among broader social factors related to intrahousehold bargaining. Using textual data from the news media and information on women\u27s candidacy in parliamentary elections, I argue that evidence points to the primacy of the effect of women leaders on young women, and that effects among men are in response to changes in young women\u27s enrollment. These dynamic effects on men could potentially be explained either through a signaling model of human capital investment, or by demand for an eventual education differential among married couples

Cultivating Community and Wellness in Honors

The 2019 National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in New Orleans was a beneficial experience for our honors program here at Governors State University. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to speak with other honors student council members from all across the Nation. These other honors programs have established impactful learning opportunities that have greatly increased the involvement in their honors community. As a relatively new honors program, we are looking into new ways of implementing opportunities in the community of Governors State University. Our goal during our time here at Governors State University is to build a stronger community by engaging all honors students to be actively involved in events that we create. We will do this by setting up more community service opportunities, creating mindfulness activities, and more frequent retreats to take learning outside of the classroom

A fault tolerant grid generation technique

Automatic and parallel mesh generation has been highlighted as a bottleneck for large scale automated Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis. The desire for large scale automated CFD is driven by the growing computational capabilities in large scale supercomputers. Unfortunately, as compute clusters grow in size, they also suffer more failures. Left unchecked, the increased frequency of failures may stymie any efforts to fully utilize these machines. This work aims to tackle one component required for automated large scale engineering analysis by developing a fault tolerant mesh generator. The mesh generator uses a novel com- munication layer written using the transport layer ZeroMQ and is made fault tolerant through an integrated in-memory checkpoint and recovery strategy. Benefits of using in-memory checkpoints vs traditional in-disk checkpoints are discussed. By relying on in-memory checkpointing, it is demonstrated that the mesh generator to be capable of generating Cartesian meshes in parallel. The generator continues to operate even while the compute cluster it is running suffers failures. The generator is shown to be high performing, including being capable of generating an 8.6 billion element mesh in just over 1 minute while creating multiple in-memory checkpoints

Desisting from Prescription Drug Abuse: An Application of Growth Models to Rx Opioid Users

Modern desistance research has examined many facets of desistance, in terms of theoretical predictors of desistance and recidivism, and in terms of differing types of offending. Though predicting desistance from illegal drug use is among these topics, no research to date has examined the predictors of desisting from prescription opioid abuse. This study uses longitudinal data from 318 prescription opioid users to analyze the effects of various predictors of desistance on declining nonmedical prescription opioid use, with an emphasis on gender differences among participants. Results indicate that theoretical and demographic characteristics correspond with differing rates of decline and further vary by gender