This free course is coordinated by Dr. Álvaro Castillo and dictated by Andrés González, Mg. The topics of the course are: installation. advantages and disadvantages of the software, interphase, installation of statistical packages, data importation, types of variables, objects, online resources, descriptive statistic, and data configuration. You will need a personal laptop. Inscription and questions: ciss@umayor.cl
The paper titled "The Consequences of Electoral Reform: Partisan Bias and Coalition Incentives in Chile" authored by Eduardo Aleman (University of Houston), Jose M. Cabezas (Universidad Mayor) and Ernesto F. Calvo (University of Maryland-College Park ), examines the consequences of electoral reform for political parties and constituent representation in Chile’s Congress. The analysis focuses on the bias inherent in the rules, the implications of vote concentration within districts, and the incentives for coalition formation. We argue that prior to the 2015 reform, the largest bias favored the strongest party in the list coming second in the district, whereas after the reform the largest bias favors junior partners within lists. Contrary to the prediction that the reform would eliminate incentives for coalition formation, we show that such motivations are also present under the new rule. However, we also show that the 2015 reform ended up promoting greater fragmentation in Congress, as some of its critics predicted. The paper expands our understanding of open list proportional representation and how incentives and party bias change as district magnitude increases. The Midwest Political Science Association is the largest PS Conference in the US and it´s held in Chicago every April
Research lead by Dr. Esteban Calvo, director of the Society and Health research Center, with regards to the effect of stress on salivary telomere length was awarded a very prestigious award at the Alpine Population Conference on January 21st. The article titled "Stress and salivary telomere length in the second half of life: A comparison of life-course models" was chosen for the "2019 Advances in Life Course Research Young Scholar Award". The authors of this work are as follows: Margaret Willis (Columbia University), Ursula Staudinger (Columbia University), Pam Factor-Litvak (Columbia University) and Esteban Calvo (Columbia University and Universidad Mayor). Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.02.001
Dr. Peña Neira has been ratified as judge in the national competitions of the Phillip C. Jessup Competition in 2020, mantaining this position since 2012 - ad honorem and representing the Society and Health Research Center and the Law school at Universidad Mayor (Chile).
