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Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
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We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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We test whether early Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions in Connecticut (CT), Minnesota (MN), California (CA), and the District of Columbia (DC) affected SSI applications, SSI and DI awards, and the number of SSI and DI beneficiaries. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach,...
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impact on crony capitalism in Malaysia and on financing constraints in Chile, to their impact on US multinational behavior …
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We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...
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countries and time in the control measures implemented; (iii) there are multiple definitions of what constitutes a "success" and … country cases (Chile and Malaysia). In this paper, we attempt to address some of these shortcomings by: being very explicit … about what measures are construed as capital controls. Also, given that success is measured so differently across studies …
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The initial impact of the Asian financial crisis in Malaysia reduced the expected value of government subsidies to …
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This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The stylized pattern from the previous 160 currency crisis episodes over the period from 1970 to 1995 shows a V-type adjustment of real GDP growth in the years prior to and...
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In the Asian crisis of 1997-98 some countries followed IMF prescriptions for stabilization and recovery. Malaysia went … crisis was over, as interest rates in all Asian crisis economies, including Malaysia, were already declining rapidly and as …
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