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From Retributive to Restorative : An Alternative Approach to Justice
Adukia, Anjali; Feigenberg, Benjamin; Momeni, Fatemeh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from a zero-sum perspective: suspend students seen as disruptive and potentially harm them, or avoid suspensions and harm their classmates. Restorative practices (RP) -- focused on reparation and shared ownership of disciplinary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372432
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Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior : Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ravindran, Saravana; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention improves caregiver knowledge (0.52 SD) and attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322726
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Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
Kalil, Ariel; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study investigates effects of welfare reform in the U.S., a major policy shift that increased employment of low-income mothers and reliance on their own earnings instead of cash assistance through the welfare system, on the quality of the home environments they provide for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362060
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How Elastic is the Government's Demand for Weapons?
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1989
We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476023
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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?
Jacob, Brian A. - 2010
This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462936
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Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices : Evidence from the Pendleton Act
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510544
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School Accountability, Long-Run Criminal Activity, and Self-Sufficiency
Eren, Ozkan; Figlio, David N.; Mocan, Naci; Ozturk, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the impact of school accountability on adult crime and economic self-sufficiency. We employ a unique source of linked administrative data from a Southern state and exploit exogenous variation generated by the state's accountability regime. Our findings indicate that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337790
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Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance? : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M. - 1999
large commercial aircraft. The analysis combines the deep firm- specific knowledge of management and labor typical of the … productivity impacts of movements from traditional adversarial management, which is the norm in this industry, to total quality … management (TQM) and back again. How and why TQM is adopted may be just as important as whether it is adopted. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471367
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Characteristics of TQM : Evidence from the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Competition
Rosett, Joshua G. - 1999
This paper reports the results of a field study examining the use of TQM at 15 firms. The sample is drawn from winners and finalists of the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup. The authors interviewed 75 employees (5 per firm) including 14 executives, 44 middle managers, and 17 front line workers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471549
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The Quality of Goverment
Porta, Rafael La - 1998
We investigate empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries. We assess government performance using measures of government intervention, public sector efficiency, public good provision, size of government, and political freedom. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472086