Our Experts in the News: November 2023
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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition
November 27, 2023
Dan Hungerman, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame who has studied the impact of vouchers on private school finances, noted that the Heritage report’s main finding lacked the common elements of rigorous academic research: statistical significance and standard error.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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The Guardian
Can you solve it? How cut-throat are you? The ruthless pursuit of power
November 27, 2023
Today’s puzzle concerns a group of five power-hungry schemers who are all desperate to become the top boss. Your task will be to work out how the person of lowest status can triumph above all the others. The puzzle is a new variant of what are often called “pirate-division” problems, and was written by Joel David Hamkins, who is currently the O’Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame and was previously Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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OSV News
Sometimes Called ‘Little Lent,’ Advent Zeros In On Preparation, Which Can Include Penitence
November 24, 2023
Timothy O’Malley, the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, emphasized that much of the church’s year has historically been penitential.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Our Sunday Visitor
Starbucks denies new employee benefits to unionized workers during bargaining
November 16, 2023
Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame”s Center for Social Concerns, remarked, “Starbucks has become the poster child for the service sector employer — the labor-intensive sectors — that say, ‘We cannot have a unionized workforce; we cannot imagine any kind of reallocation of power that’s going to result in some reallocation of the surplus; some reallocation of the income to our workforce.'”
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Associated Press
Protesters demonstrate against world leaders, Israel-Hamas war as APEC comes to San Francisco
November 13, 2023
Rory McVeigh, sociology professor and director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, said politicians use protests to gauge public opinion and that media attention helps.
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Newsweek
Gas Prices Tumble in Time for Thanksgiving
November 09, 2023
"Gasoline prices have long exhibited a seasonal pattern in which prices rise in the first half of the year and fall in the second half," University of Notre Dame economics professor Thomas Gresik told Newsweek. "This pattern is due to the change from winter blend gas to summer blend gas."
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MarketWatch
The Taylor Swift stock-market effect? We are convinced.
November 06, 2023
“The market does not respond to pop stars,” says Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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WNDU
Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies hosts panel with Latino trailblazers
November 02, 2023
The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies played host to an inspiring panel discussion featuring prominent Latino leaders from Hollywood.