and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If …

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor … urban areas ; urbanization ; industry structure ; DEA …

This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …

This article examines whether the means-tested component of the National School Lunch Program changes beneficiaries …' dietary patterns by taking advantage of variation across public school districts in the financing of and demand for lunch and … nutrition programs. Using data on fifth grade public elementary school children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study …

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …

8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …