Sick leave and pensions
I’m taking one of my rare sick days today, and while I don’t have that much stamina to concentrate for a long time, I’ll note just a few thoughts about debates over teacher pensions a la Chad Aldeman’s comments. First, the entire debate strikes me as largely unconscious of or compartmentalized from the larger context […]
Stationary population models and graduation
In odd moments in the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with a standard demographic concept, the stationary population model. This is one of those things that don’t really exist in reality, a population with constant mortality and fertility rates, with no migration in or out, and where the population is the same every […]