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between school choice and five factors:(1) student achievement, (2) student segregation (alonglines of ability, income, and … (5) the degree to whichparents are involved in and influence their children’s schools. Second, how do the general facts …
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.Two of the studies report significant gains in math forthe choice students and two report no significant effectsin reading. I … also extend the analysis to compare theachievement of students in the choice schools with that ofstudents in three … small class sizes and supplementalfunding from the state of Wisconsin (“P-5” schools).The results suggest that students in P …
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substitutes. We find that there is a skill biasin cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled … labormore efficiently than lower-income countries, while they use unskilled labor relativelyand, possibly, absolutely less …
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There are two sources of inconsistency in existing cross-country empiricalwork on growth: correlated individual effects and endogenous explanatoryvariables. We estimate a variety of cross- country growth regressions usinga generalized method of moments estimator that eliminates both problems.In...
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We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justification forcapital income taxation: goods preferred by … of income and consumption and find that, when ability ispositively related to a preference for a good, optimal marginal … commoditytaxes on this good may be regressive: i.e., declining with income. We derivean analytical expression for optimal commodity …
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We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justi…cation for capital income taxation: goodspreferred by … functions of income and consumption and …nd that, when ability is positivelyrelated to a preference for a good, optimal marginal … commodity taxes on this good may be regressive: i.e.,declining with income. We derive an analytical expression for optimal …
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We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration.We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns ofsegregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic...
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