Saturday, April 11, 2009

13 April Updates Here

Sorry for dropping the ball last week.

4 comments:

Yoonah said...
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Yoonah said...

Done by 4/12

-dissertation

1. coded 2004 and 2007 local election results and got re-election rates along with intra-family successions
2. coded municipal government income and expenditure data from years 2003 and 2006


To Do by 4/19

-data entry

1. code election violence and Galing Pook awardees
2. code 2001 election results if the Comelec website is up again
3. combine with provincial level clan data
4. start to think about how to do census data conversion (CS Pro)
5. check SOF data for municipality codes


-find immigration data

1.get access to the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti (FRDB) Social
Reforms database (2007) for OECD migration policies
2.get Mayda and Patel (2004) for immigration law descriptions
3.look into ILO, IOM, and World Bank for other countries


-find municipal level poverty data
1. check out again the subscription status with NSCB


-data anaylsis
1. figure out weights for SWS (work with the Johnson piece)

Miryam said...

To Do by 3/19/09
1. Research
Finish reading pertinent sections of A Concise History of Bolivia
Read pertinent sections of A History of Brazil
Continue reading Central America
Skim The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks
Re-read Brownlee intro
Read Brownlee piece for Tuesday
Attempt to schedule meeting with Marcus
Write; work on section about outcomes of regime using information mechanisms
2. TA Work
Pick up and grade geography exams
Look at the readings
Figure out when midterm is
3. Class work
Read all missed chapters of Micro book
Finish Homework 2
4. Other
Dress fitting
Get stamps
Stuff and mail invitations
Tasting
Fight bees again
Buy new hose head

Rebecca said...

To Do by April 20th

Dissertation
1. Go through newspaper articles and start spreadsheet
2. think about question and brainstorm at least once

Teaching
1. Read and Lesson Plan for 4/15
2. Read and Lesson Plan for 4/20

Class
1. AMLE HW

Other
1. Prep for Rich’s class
2. cover Rich’s class
3. dentist apt
4. PFF interview
5. pick up chametz from neighbor
6. mail in-law’s Easter card