3 October
2005 Chatmag News.
Dartmouth's
Bruce Sacerdote to participate in October 19 Web chat.
Internet
Chat Will Examine Work Habits in U.S. and Europe.
Bruce
Sacerdote, a professor at Dartmouth College and researcher at the National
Bureau of Economic Research who has written and spoken extensively on the
relationship of work to leisure, will compare work habits on both sides
of the Atlantic in an Internet chat conducted by the U.S. Department of
State’s Bureau of International Information Programs.
He
will be available to answer your questions live on October 19 at 9:00 a.m.
EDT (1300 GMT).
If
you want to ask a question or make a comment, please register at iipchat@state.gov.
If you already have participated in one of our previous discussions, there
is no need to register again. Just use the same user name and password.
We neither require nor encourage the use of full names.
As
always, WE ACCEPT YOUR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS IN ADVANCE of the program
and at any time during it. You may also e-mail your questions without registering.
A
recent interview with Sacerdote is available at the Wall Street Journal
Online.
Upcoming
webchats include:
•
Discussions on contemporary American literature, in support of the Frankfurt
book fair.
•
Andrew Benson, director of international outreach on biotechnology and
food safety at the International Food Information Council (see Web site).
Since
June, the State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs
(IIP) has held interactive Internet chats on such diverse topics as:
·
environmental protection
·
foreign aid
·
future of Web chats
·
human rights
·
immigration and multiculturalism
·
Muslims in America
·
spread of democracy
·
Supreme Court of the U.S.
·
Uzbekistan
--Chatmag
News Staff-
External
Links:
A
recent interview with Sacerdote is available at the Wall Street Journal
Online.