Student and Career Services Calendar

Come meet up with Bloustein School students, alumni, staff, and faculty during the 2019 TRB conference. Organized by the Bloustein School DC alumni chapter. Hope you can all make it. The more, the merrier! Bar Deco is relatively close to the Convention center in Chinatown.

How Extended Family Health Issues Influence Household Portfolio Allocations

Growing research links household financial decisions and health status within the nuclear family. However, the focus on the nuclear family could underestimate the health-wealth effect. Previous research finds that household wealth can decline when an extended family member experiences a physical health shock. We expand current economic modeling to investigate the connection between portfolio allocations and mental health among siblings. Mental health conditions affect nearly one fourth (23%) of the adult U.S. population. We hypothesize that mental health issues outside of the nuclear family unit are a unique contributor to household portfolaio allocation decisions. We use panel data and find significant effects of having at least one sibling with a mental health issue on household financial decisions. The effects include decreased probability of risky asset ownership (stocks, mutual funds), decreased risky assets as a share of financial assets, and decreased total amount of risky asset holdings.

The Stuart Meck Distinguished Speaker Series on Land Use Law and Affordable Housing
Rachel Haot
Executive Director, Transit Innovation Partnership

How can cities use digital connectivity, literacy, data, tools, and partnerships to transform the way they serve their people? Using lessons and stories from New York City, New York State, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Rachel will discuss how city governments can use technology to serve residents efficiently and equitably and leverage relationships with technology companies to support land use planning and operational needs.
Rachel Haot is Executive Director of the Transit Innovation Partnership, a public-private collaboration to transform New York’s public transit system founded in 2018 by the Partnership for New York City and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Hear from a current Public Policy Fellow about Philanthropy New York and their Public Policy Fellowship for the summer 2019. Philanthropy New York promotes effective, strategic philanthropy and supports meaningful collaboration and knowledge-sharing for funders and their grantees.

Want to learn how to manage your finances wisely? Have student loans and debt? Do you have financial goals? Professor of Professional Practice Vincent Joseph will discuss how students can work toward achieving financial freedom.

Come and hear from the President and CEO of the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, Staci Berger. Staci, a Rutgers alumna and 2017 Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy Career Achievement Award recipient, directs the statewide association of over 150 community-based development organizations, created in 1989 to enhance the efforts to create affordable housing and revitalize their communities, and to improve the climate for community development in New Jersey. She will talk about the Community Scholars Internship program for summer 2019.

From the early 1980s through the early 1990s, Frank Popper wrote extensively on Locally Unwanted Land Uses, or LULUs. These are developments society needs but no one wants nearby. Examples are nuclear power plants, hazardous waste facilities, highways, and low-income housing. Planning routinely solves the seeming riddle they present. LULUs quickly became a common term in planning and later environmental justice. Dr. Popper now returns to the topic, revealing big gaps in his past work neither he or nor later researchers and policymakers found. He also shows why LULUs do not offer a complete theory of land use but a broader theory of them might.