O fly, where art thou?

Homer Meets the Coen Brothers: Memory as Artistic Pastiche in OBrotheVy Where Art Thou?

The Coen brothers' 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? presents an intriguing and unusual case for the question of whether historical accuracy is important in films that use classical antiquity as a direct setting or indirect reference point. With key elements of the film based on Homer's Odyssey, O Brother is set in the American south during the Great Depression. Those familiar with the often...

O brother, where art thou located?: raising awareness of variability in location tracking for users of location-based pervasive applications

O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling

O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in affecting children’s mobility characteristics. A key insig...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? We Need Your Help

I generalize a model of children strategizing where to live by Konrad et al. (2002) (KKLR) to include more variation in family size and to allow for uncertainty in how each family member behaves. The inclusion of uncertainty has large effects on the predictions of a KKLR-type model. I find that the KKLR model does not explain American data well, but an alternative model with the same reduced fo...

Archimedes’ Cattle Problem

If thou art diligent and wise, O stranger, compute the number of cattle of the Sun, who once upon a time grazed on the fields of the Thrinacian isle of Sicily, divided into four herds of different colours, one milk white, another glossy black, the third yellow and the last dappled. In each herd were bulls, mighty in number according to these proportions: Understand, stranger, that the white bul...