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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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specialized fields like technology management. Structurally, new types of students and learning demands are placing stresses on … future student population, with distinct needs and demands for part-time and executive education. This shift is also evident …
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technology shocks in explaining aggregate fluctuations. To this end we estimate the model's posterior density using Markov …
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Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total …
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technology and governments stepping up climate policies in the light of the Paris commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 … definition of stranded assets also includes countries reliant on fossil fuel exports and workers with technology-specific skills. …
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In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
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We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …
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In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …. Education and crime depend on different dimensions of heterogeneity, which takes the form of differences in innate ability and …
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-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young. This requires that labor is not … mobile. Furthermore, establishing public education may benefit only the generation which pays for education twice, first for …
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The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
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