HIGHER EDUCATION AND LIFE CHANCES: A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL ATTAINMENTS AND ATTITUDES AMONG SOME PUBLIC UNIVERSITY GRADUATES

This study investigates the post-graduate educational and occupational experiences of the 1968 and 1978 graduates of a state flagship university. First, it explores the influence of parental variables upon respondents\u27 choice of curriculum and of post-graduate study. Second, it examines the occupational placement of the respondents by cohort and by gender. Third, it explores the present attitudes of the respondents by cohort and gender. A stratified random sampling of the graduates (N = 433) via a mailed survey questionnaire shows that more men than women in the 1968 cohort return their forms. There is the suspicion that only those who view their occupational performance as successful returned their questionnaires. Therefore, many of the findings of this study must be placed in the context of this particular sample. The main results of this study suggest that the respondents\u27 gender and the educational resources of the respondents\u27 family of orientation are related to the selection of undergraduate curriculum such that males and students from less educationally-privileged families tend to major in more quantitative or technical disciplines. Second, I find that going on to professional school is a function of father\u27s occupational position. Third, there are differences in the occupational attainment process for male and female respondents in the sense that different explanatory factors are involved. Fourth, there are few differences in occupational and political attitudes of the respondents by cohort or gender

The story of Wellesley, Massachusetts, for fifth grade children

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Comparing Nutrient Recovery via Rapid (Flash Hydrolysis) and Conventional Hydrothermal Liquefaction Processes for Microalgae Cultivation

Algal biofuels have the potential to provide a scalable source of renewable fuels in the near future. The high nutrient use in algae cultivation and its recovery and recycling is one of the challenges that may limit the scalability and sustainability of algal biofuels. The present study evaluates the use of Hydrolysate obtained after Flash Hydrolysis (FH) of Scenedesmus at 280 C as a nutrient source for microalgae cultivation. FH Hydrolysate nutrient recycling was compared with low temperature batch Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) nutrient recycling. Oocystis and Scenedesmus were cultivated using Hydrolysate as a partial phosphorous (P) and nitrogen (N) source. The study shows that 50% of the phosphorus required in the culture media could be replaced with Hydrolysate from FH; also, 50% nitrogen was provided from the same source. Ammonia toxicity is one limitation for the higher percentages of N replacement in this study. The HTL aqueous phase had a near continuous high soluble ammonia concentration in the media. The effect was significant for the 50% P HTL replacement treatment where almost no algae growth was observed in the first 11 days of the experiment

Public and Private Information: An Experimental Study of Information Pooling

This paper reports on an experimental study of-the way in which individuals make inferences from publicly available information. We compare the predictions of a theoretical model of a common knowledge inference process with actual behavior. In the theoretical model, "perfect Bayesians," starting with private information, take actions; an aggregate statistic is made publicly available; the individuals do optimal Bayesian updating and take new actions; and the process continues until there is a common knowledge equilibrium with complete information pooling. We find that the theoretical model roughly predicts the observed behavior, but the actual inference process is clearly less efficient than the standard of the theoretical model, and while there is some pooling, it is incomplete

Status Quo Bias in Bargaining: An extension of the Myerson Satterthwaite Theorem with an application to the Coase Theorem

We use a generalized version of the Myerson-Satterthwaite theorem to study inefficiencies in bilateral bargaining over trade of an indivisible good, where there is two sided private information on the valuations. We show that when preferences are convex and quasi linear, and when the private information represents the magnitude of the utility gain or loss and follows a uniform distribution, that the most efficient mechanism always exhibits a bias towards the status quo. In the case that utility functions are quadratic in the amount traded, we prove that for any incentive compatible direct mechanism, there is an expected bias towards the disagreement point. In other words, for the class of preferences we study, there is a strategic advantage to property rights in the Coase bargaining setup in the presence of incomplete information

Optimal Research for Cournot Oligopolists

We extend the classical Cournot model to take account of uncertainty in either the cost function or the demand function. By undertaking research, firms can acquire private (asymmetric) information to help resolve their uncertainty and make a more informed production decision. The model is a two stage game: in the first stage research levels are chosen, and in the second stage, conditional on private research outcomes, production decisions are made. We find that for a linear, continuous information structure there is a unique Nash equilibrium to the game. In the equilibrium there may be an inefficient amount of aggregate research and there may be incomplete pooling as well. The model specializes to the classical case when the cost of research is zero (and each firm gains essentially the same information by doing an infinite amount of research) or when the cost of research is so high no firm undertakes research

A Ridiculusmus virtual trilogy: grief, laughter and the performance.In Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

In May 2020, David Woods and Jon Haynes, performers and artistic directors of Ridiculusmus, presented the trilogy ‘Dialogue As The Embodiment of Love’ in the form of a three-day online seminar series, via the online conference platform Teams. It featured a live online ‘directors’ commentary’, of each of the productions in the trilogy, alongside a screening of extracts on Youtube with David Woods in Melbourne and Jon Haynes in London. This is a discussion paper highlighting themes in Day 3 of the seminar series On the final day of the series, Woods and Haynes discussed the content of four out of seven extracts in the above Youtube Playlist, taken from the 82 minute ‘epic’ performance of Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! (DDDOPD), the longest play in the trilogy. The item here is the documentation of the 3 day symposium. This is supporting document contains a summary list of points in the directors’ discussion around each clip. The reader will probably appreciate listening to the accounts of the creative process directly from the directors in the Vimeo seminar recording above. The video clips of the production that I edited are not available on the Vimeo link but have been released as evidence of the Trilogy format. The play is an appropriate focal point for the discussing the outcomes of trilogy as a whole, because it marks a shift in the preoccupations in the previous two works and in my commentary I argue that Ridiculusmus’ dramaturgical approach offers an important element in provoking affective responses as part of the ‘treatment’ of issues associated with death and bereavement