Intersectionality Is Not a Choice: Reflections of a Queer Scholar of Color on Teaching,Writing, and Belonging in LGBTQ Studies and Academia

ABSTRACT

Drawing on my experience as a queer, genderqueer, Puerto Rican counselor educator, this article considers how LGBTQAI+ studies and academia can expand to better include people with multiple marginalized identities. This article highlights some of the contradictions that educators face when engaging in the liberatory praxis that connects and creates a sense of belonging during these tumultuous times. This reflection suggests a decolonizing approach to intersectionality and highlights the importance of transcending binary discourse to engage in deconstructing the multiple layers of colonization in our internal and external spaces that is necessary for liberatory praxis. Finally, a few recommendations for how LGBTQAI+ studies and academia can support scholars with multiple marginalized identities are identified.     

Understanding changes in Māori incomes and income inequality 1997–2003

This paper examines recent changes in weekly income levels and dispersion for Māori, New Zealand’s indigenous ethnic group. Changes in the Māori income distribution between 1997 and 2003 reflect rapid increases in economic growth and employment rate. A reduced proportion of people had zero or benefit-level incomes and a higher proportion had high incomes. Income inequality declined for working-aged Māori and was stable for employed Māori. The average income gap between Māori and Europeans declined. The increased Māori employment rate during this period was the single most important driver of changes in the Māori income distribution.

An evaluation of change-point estimators for a sequence of normal observations with unknown parameters

Performance of maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) of the change-point in normal series is evaluated considering three scenarios where process parameters are assumed to be unknown. Different shifts, sample sizes, and locations of a change-point were tested. A comparison is made with estimators based on cumulative sums and Bartlett's test. Performance analysis done with extensive simulations for normally distributed series showed that the MLEs perform better (or equal) in almost every scenario, with smaller bias and standard error. In addition, robustness of MLE to non-normality is also studied.     

Atribuciones sobre el éxito y el fracaso: efectos del sexo y de la cultura

Resumen

Un total de 152 estudiantes universitarios de Bogotá, Colombia y el mismo número de una universidad en Chicago, Estados Unidos hicieron atribuciones sobre el éxito o el fracaso en la labores académicas de un individuo (hombre o mujer) que ellos desconocían. Posteriormente, estos mismos sujetos hicieron atribuciones para el éxito o el fracaso propio, de nuevo en una tarea académica. No se encontraron diferencias significativas debidas al sexo del sujeto en lo que concierne a las atribuciones del observador para el éxito o el fracaso del individuo que se evaluó. Los sujetos estadounidenses prefirieron hacer atribuciones internas para su propio comportamiento así como para el comportamiento de otros individuos mientras que los colombianos prefirieron hacer atribuciones con un locus de control externo. Las mujeres de ambos países consideraron las causas internas como más importantes para su propio éxito que los hombres aunque este patrón fue lo opuesto para una situación de fracaso.     

DIFFERENCES IN CITATION PATTERNS ACROSS JOURNAL TIERS: THE CASE OF ECONOMICS

We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics by analyzing citations patterns of more than 6,000 research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals. We find that top five journals' articles receive more citations and that the life cycles of those citations are longer. However, their influence (in term of citations) is overestimated: in its first twenty years since publication, the median top five article accumulates 4.25 as many citations when compared to non-top five median articles. This ratio is strongly associated with the field of economics research and with articles' impact. (JEL A14)     

Young People’s Social Engagement: Personal Motivations and Social Networks

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - This study focuses on the role of individuals’ social networks and motivations in predicting their intention to...     

Bivariate distributions with second kind beta conditionals

In this paper the most general bivariate distributions with second kind beta conditionals is fully characterized. This family is closed under inversions and the conditional moments are shown to be rational functions of the conditioned variable. Two subfamilies of dependent distributions is shown to have second kind beta marginals too. Finally, as a particular case, the most general bivariate distribution with second kind Pareto conditionals is characterized.