Success was the goal for this generation and to a startling extent they have atained it, and now we venture to say that, if intimately approached, nine in ten would confess that success is only a decoration they wished to wear; what they really wanted is something deeper and richer than that."
-Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Looking Back Eight Years (1927)
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Retrospective.
2. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool and D-Cup
3. Calabria 2008 - Enur
4. Bulletproof - La Roux
5. Carnival - The Cardigans
6. The Shining Path - RJD2
7. Hey Young World - Slick Rick
8. I'm a Man - Spencer Davis Group
9. Intermission
10. Redondo Beach - Patti Smith
11. Fronteir Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
12. Maybe the People Would be the Times - Love
13. Richard Cory - Them
14. Jackson Cage - Bruce Springsteen
15. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
16. He War - Cat Power
17. Stage Fright - The Band
18. Gotta Gettaway - Stiff Little Fingers
19. You Gotta Move - RL Burnside
20. Home - LCD Soundsystem
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Friday, October 2, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
sexy economics
The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F Katz*
---- Abstract -----
The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the diffusion of the birth control pill among young, single college educated women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among young single women until the late 1960s when a series of state law changes reduced the age of majority and extended mature minor decisions. We model the impact of the pill on women's careers as consisting of two effects. The pill had a direct positive effect on women's career investment by almost eliminating the chance of becoming pregnant and thus the cost of having sex. The pill also created a social multiplier effect by encouraging the delay of marriage generally and thus increasing a career woman's likelihood of finding an appropriate mate after professional school. We present a collage of evidence pointing to the power of the pill in lowering the costs of long-duration professional education for women. The evidence consists of the striking coincidences in the timing of changes in career investment, marriage age, state laws, and pill use among young single women. The connection between changes in the age at first marriage and the pill is further explored using state variation in laws affecting young single women's pill access. We also evaluate alternative explanations for the changes in career and marriage.
*Published: Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence F. Katz. "The Power Of The Pill: Contraceptives And Women's Career And Marriage Decisions," Journal of Political Economy, 2002, v110(4,Aug), 730-770.
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research $5
by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F Katz*
---- Abstract -----
The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the diffusion of the birth control pill among young, single college educated women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among young single women until the late 1960s when a series of state law changes reduced the age of majority and extended mature minor decisions. We model the impact of the pill on women's careers as consisting of two effects. The pill had a direct positive effect on women's career investment by almost eliminating the chance of becoming pregnant and thus the cost of having sex. The pill also created a social multiplier effect by encouraging the delay of marriage generally and thus increasing a career woman's likelihood of finding an appropriate mate after professional school. We present a collage of evidence pointing to the power of the pill in lowering the costs of long-duration professional education for women. The evidence consists of the striking coincidences in the timing of changes in career investment, marriage age, state laws, and pill use among young single women. The connection between changes in the age at first marriage and the pill is further explored using state variation in laws affecting young single women's pill access. We also evaluate alternative explanations for the changes in career and marriage.
*Published: Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence F. Katz. "The Power Of The Pill: Contraceptives And Women's Career And Marriage Decisions," Journal of Political Economy, 2002, v110(4,Aug), 730-770.
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research $5
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
success during crisis, how?
"Minimizing subprime lending is a reflection of a broader cultural difference at the bank, which is ultimately the bigger factor in the company's success" from sfgate.com 9/21/08
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
sometimes the world is a confusing place
"A March 2007 study in The Journal of Food Science looked at the effects of boiling, steaming, microwaving and pressure cooking on the nutrients in broccoli.
-Steaming and boiling caused a 22 percent to 34 percent loss of vitamin C.
-Microwaved and pressure-cooked vegetables retained 90 percent of their vitamin C."
-Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables by Tara Parker-Pope
NY Times Online
-Steaming and boiling caused a 22 percent to 34 percent loss of vitamin C.
-Microwaved and pressure-cooked vegetables retained 90 percent of their vitamin C."
-Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables by Tara Parker-Pope
NY Times Online
Microwave Oven, patented Jan. 24, 1950 #2,495,429
Sunday, May 18, 2008
conservation
To preserve, maintain & protect in order to extend usefulness and enjoyment - improvement by way of damage prevention
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