Harris is an economist whose research explores how the level and equity of student educational outcomes are influenced by education policies such as desegregation, standards, teacher certification, test-based accountability, school choice, privatization, and school finance. As director of Era-New Orleans, his current work focuses on the effects of the unprecedented school reforms that emerged in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Long’s research concentrates on financial econometrics, time series and applied econometrics. His current work focuses on model selection and model averaging. For example, Dr. Long has studied dependence structures among different financial markets by implementing a model averaging method on the mixture copula model. He has used the model averaging method to estimate the treatment effect of social policy (e.g., Virginia’s justice reform in 1995). And he has researched the explosive behavior in the gold market since the 1960s.
Dr. Button researches in three areas. First, he researches discrimination in labor markets on the basis of age or disability. He is currently working on a field experiment to quantify how much discrimination older workers face, and what factors influence the amount of discrimination. He also studies the impact of employment non-discrimination laws on older or disabled workers. Second, Button studies how tax incentives for economic development affect where firms operate, using tax incentives for the film industry as a case study.
Mónica Hernández is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Education Research Alliance of New Orleans (ERA-New Orleans) and Tulane University’s Department of Economics. Her fields of interest include economics of education, development economics, labor economics and early childhood education. Her research examines the role that outside of school settings play on educational inequality gaps, in the context of both developing and developed countries.
Mónica Hernández is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Education Research Alliance of New Orleans (ERA-New Orleans) and Tulane University’s Department of Economics. Her fields of interest include economics of education, development economics, labor economics and early childhood education. Her research examines the role that outside of school settings play on educational inequality gaps, in the context of both developing and developed countries.
Dr. Stoecker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health Systems and Development at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He is a health economist interested in designing and analyzing policies that affect early life events. Dr. Stoecker’s work has explored the impacts of vaccination policy efficiency, air pollution regulation, and health insurance coverage on children’s health.
Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. His research specialties are in aesthetics, philosophy of literature, philosophy of language, and German idealism. He has published ten books and over eighty articles which have appeared in a number of highly regarded academic journals.
Tamar Schapiro is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Her research focuses on questions of human agency and the philosophy of action. Her primary interests are in ethical theory, history of ethics, practical reasoning and human agency. Her early articles, published in Ethics, Noûs, and The Journal of Philosophy, focus on the moral status of children and the more general problem of how to make principled exceptions to moral rules.
The 2017 New Orleans Invitational Seminar in Ethics (NOISE) is a one day meeting featuring discussion of new papers on ethics by Elizabeth Brake (Arizona State), Eric Cave (Arkansas St.), Janice Dowell and David Sobel (Syracuse), Hille Paakkunainen (Syracuse), Bas Van der Vossen (UNCG), and Steve Wall (Arizona). Commentators and session chairs include Rosa Terlazzo (Kansas St), Simon May (Florida State), Massimo Renzo (UCL), Dale Dorsey (Kansas), Mikhail Valdman (Virginia Commonwealth), and Tamler Sommers (Houston).
