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Applied Econometrics & Data Analytics Graduate Program

The STEM approved Applied Econometrics and Data Analytics (AEDA) master's degree program offers a broad spectrum of applied agricultural economics subject matter, including production and development economics, statistical methods, applied econometric analysis and economic analysis of water, food and environmental policies. In just 18 months, you'll receive training that will prepare you for careers as econometricians, data scientists, risk managers, credit analysts, economists, and policy analysts in the private sector and in governmental and non-governmental organizations.

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Faculty within the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics focus on involving students in research, maximizing the close ties between teaching and Cooperative Extension faculty, as well as the diversity of agricultural and natural resource issues, to offer wide-ranging opportunities for field research and exposure to efforts to solve real world problems.

After completing the core course requirements, you'll chose your elective courses, and propose your own plan of study appropriate to your individual needs as approved by your faculty advisor. Upon approval, you may choose elective graduate course offerings from within or from outside the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

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PhD in Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice

17 april 2024, 23 may 2024, phd programs.

The PhD Degree is open to a limited number of students. The requirement is to pass a public selection process entailing the evaluation of academic qualifications, as well as an interview.

We offer 5 positions with fully funded scholarships for 4 years starting from September 2024.  The amount of a scholarship is about 20.000 euros gross/year. Starting from the first year, PhD students have 1624,30 euros/year to spend for conference participation and summer/winter schools.  Deadline to apply: May 23rd 2024 at 1:00 PM (Italian time).

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University of arizona plans to reduce deficit by $110 million in 2025.

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The University of Arizona announces a budget plan to reduce its budget deficit by more than $100 ... [+] million.

The University of Arizona's has outlined a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2025 that would reduce its deficit from $162 million to $52 million. The reduction plan was first revealed by UA President Robert C. Robbins in a campus email on Thursday.

“This anticipated improvement of $110 million in the University’s deficit is preliminary, but marks considerable progress in the implementation of our financial action plan . This is the result of concerted efforts by deans and leaders across the University who worked diligently on their budget plans to address spending trends and to significantly reduce the deficit,” Robbins wrote.

The university’s projected 2025 budget was also presented Thursday to the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) by UA interim CFO John Arnold at a meeting on the UA campus.

The University of Arizona’s budget woes were first disclosed last November, when it revealed it was facing what at the time was described as a $177 million budget deficit . University officials estimated it could take up to three years to cover the deficit fully.

The financial difficulties have prompted ongoing and intense criticism of the university’s leadership and the Arizona Board of Regents. Arizona Governor Katy Hobbs has leveled particularly pointed disapproval of how the university has managed its financial affairs and how ABOR has, in her opinion, failed to provide adequate oversight. In one statement , she characterized the university’s leadership as “clueless as to their own finances.”

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In the wake of that and other criticism, President Robert Robbins announced on April 2nd that he would step down at the end of his term, or even earlier, if the university could find a new leader before June 2026, when his current contract ends.

The $110 million reduction would be accomplished through a combination of budget cuts and projected new revenues. The largest reductions would come from:

• $30.1 million in lower administrative costs,
• A $10.4 million budget cut for health sciences,
• A $26.1 million decrease in the budgets for the academic colleges,

In addition to those cuts, Arnold predicted UA would have $39 million in additional base revenue and new revenue for the upcoming fiscal year that would be used to lower the deficit.

Arnold cautioned the Board that the numbers were preliminary. “We think these are pretty good numbers, but we’re also very nervous about putting them out this early in the cycle and there are still a number of unknowns,” Arnold said, according to the Arizona Daily Star . “We’re confident in these numbers but we’re also confident they’re going to change in the coming months.”

In his message to the campus, Robbins emphasized that the largest share of the budget savings was coming from reductions in administrative expenses. “As a result,” he wrote, the University will be in a position to allocate sufficient funds to ensure no college starts FY 2025 in a budget deficit.”

Even as UA administrators attempted to cast their budget scenario in the best possible light, students and faculty expressed anger over both the budget cuts and what they perceive to be a flawed process in putting together the advisory committee that will search for Robbins’ successor.

Quoted in the Arizona Daily Star, Lee Medovoi, a professor of English, challenged administrators’ claims that colleges had overspent their budgets. ”No college is growing as fast as we are shrinking. It was sucked out of our core mission: teaching, research and service.”

Adding to the turmoil are calls from several quarters, including an editorial in The Arizona Republic , that Robbins step down immediately rather than waiting for his successor to be named.

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An Unexpected Effect of Teacher Strikes on How Much Schools Spend

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Teacher strikes can be stressful for educators, parents, and students—but they can help spur bigger investments in schools beyond the districts where they take place, newly published research shows.

Researchers Melissa Lyon and Matthew Kraft compiled and analyzed a database of more than 500 teacher strikes that took place in the United States between 2007 and 2018. Then they cross-referenced those districts with data on per-pupil spending and advertising for congressional campaigns, in an effort to determine whether and how strikes affected the political position of K-12 education and spending in the communities where they happened and beyond.

They found that, on average, districts where a strike took place saw increases in per-pupil spending of $670 within three years of the strike, or a 6 percent increase relative to a generalized estimate of a typical per-pupil expenditure of $11,195.

Some of those gains likely came from salary and benefits increases negotiated in the contract district employees were seeking during the strike.

But Lyon and Kraft found evidence that suggests a “spillover effect” as well—all districts in states where a strike took place saw increases in per-pupil expenditures from state funds, whether they had a strike or not. Therefore, localized strikes, the authors conclude, have statewide political reach, often prompting a reaction in state capitols.

“I wanted to conceptualize strikes as something bigger than just these contract negotiation tactics,” said Lyon, an assistant professor of public administration and policy at the University at Albany. “I wanted to think about strikes as this broader political signal that was intended to attract attention and convince people that something is very wrong about what happens in schools.”

The paper, published April 8 in the online version of the Journal of Human Resources , also shows that teacher strikes doubled the likelihood that local congressional candidates mentioned education in their campaign ads.

At their most effective, the authors say, teacher strikes can “publicly signal the need for political and economic changes” in ways that lead to tangible outcomes.

Not all teacher strikes are necessarily created equal, though. Lyon and Kraft, an associate professor of education and economics at Brown University, found that strikes lasting less than a week tended to cause education to take an even more prominent role in political campaigns, and for per-pupil spending to increase even more on average, than strikes that lasted two weeks or longer.

“The longer strikes tend to lead to a sort of political avoidance where political candidates are actually less likely to mention education,” she said. Indeed, candidates in districts that had strikes longer than 11 days were 11 percent less likely to mention education in their political campaigns.

Lyon said she’s still working on a follow-up paper that poses the same questions for strikes between 2018 and the present, including the wave of “Red for Ed” strikes that drew thousands of participants in states like Arizona and West Virginia , where teacher strikes have traditionally been rare. So far, she said, the effects of recent strikes on school funding appear to be similar to, if not greater than, what she’s found previously.

Strikes remain illegal in many places, but still powerful

Thirty-seven states by law prohibit educators from going on strike .

That may change in some places.

Members of the teachers’ union in Clark County, Nev., last September engaged in “rolling sickouts” during an impasse in contract negotiations with their district. A judge eventually ruled the sickouts constituted an illegal strike .

Members of the Clark County teachers’ union are now gathering signatures to solicit voter approval on the November ballot for teachers’ legal right to strike.

It remains to be seen whether the issue will come before voters. For his part, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, said in March that he doesn’t believe teachers should be legally permitted to strike.

Meanwhile, a recent push to legalize teacher strikes in Massachusetts failed to gain traction.

But restrictions don’t always prevent educators from walking out over concerns about low pay , challenging working conditions , and even adequate district support for students’ well-being .

School staff in more than two dozen districts, including in major cities like Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., went on strike in 2023, according to the Labor Action Tracker from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations . Several of those strikes were illegal, including in Andover, Mass. , and Camas, Wash .

So far this year, teachers in several districts have gone on strike, including in Flint, Mich. , and Newton, Mass . Paraprofessionals in the Port Angeles district in Washington state also went on strike in March .

Lyon and Kraft’s database marks the first comprehensive look at 21st-century teacher strikes. The federal government tracks educator strikes but only counts labor actions that involve more than 1,000 people—and most teacher strikes in individual districts aren’t that large.

Lyon said her research has helped clarify for her that teacher strikes can offer a rare window into the conditions inside school buildings.

They’re viewed by policymakers as credible, she said, in part because they are relatively rare, and require significant resources to pull off.

“My main viewpoint into the public schools is through my 5-year-old, who’s unreliable at best. He’ll tell me there are dinosaurs at school,” she said. “Teachers are uniquely positioned at having this information.”

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New PhD course focuses on intersection of climate economics, sustainability

Rising to a critical need for more research and leadership in climate finance, Berkeley Haas has joined a group of top universities worldwide in offering an innovative online PhD course focused on the intersection of climate economics and sustainability.

Professors Adair Morse and Panos Patatoukas , co-faculty directors of the Sustainable & Impact Finance Initiative (SAIF) at Haas , have signed on to teach the online class called “Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability.” 

Ten schools, including Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Oxford, are now offering the global doctoral course for free to their PhD students. Nearly 1,000 students from 127 schools across 30 different countries are participating in the 10-week course.

The goal is to inspire a new generation of climate leaders to embark on new research that leads to innovative ways of thinking about climate finance, Patatoukas said. “Our job as instructors will be to give them the tools and the frameworks and provide ways for them to start asking interesting questions,” he said. “Overall, it’s a really good time to more formally train our students in this space. It’s rapidly evolving, it’s messy, it’s not perfect, but that makes it interesting and exciting and an area of growth that is full of opportunities.”

The course will help create change in two areas. First, it encourages students to work outside of their academic silos and come together to share ideas. “Sometimes, in a business school, we’re thinking about these problems in isolation, but this is definitely a field where everybody has to work with each other to come up with better solutions,” Patatoukas said. Second, the course will encourage students to publish cutting-edge research. “We feel like our students will have an easier time getting published in an area that is so impactful and new where basic questions remain open,” he said. 

Each week, professors from different institutions will teach topics including climate, sustainability, and economic theory; corporate carbon disclosure; introduction to climate science; climate and asset pricing; and climate and investment management. All students enrolled in the course for credit will be required to submit an idea for a research project or a plan to review a set of sustainability papers from outside of the course by the last class.

“The timing is perfect for this course,” Patatoukas said. “Because as consensus has grown worldwide over the climate crisis, a transition to net zero isn’t happening fast enough.”

That’s where mobilizing massive amounts of capital to fight climate change comes into play.  An estimated $4 trillion to $5 trillion a year in resources will need to be financed and distributed to address climate global needs, said Terhilda Garrido , interim executive director of SAIF. “Only a fraction will be provided by governments,” she said. “This course addresses our need to mobilize innovative climate finance quickly, train leaders in finance, and learn from each other, globally. Climate is a global issue requiring global collaboration.”

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