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Do Expenditures Other than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education
Webber, Douglas A. - 2010
During the last two decades, median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American 4-year colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate than median spending per FTE student in a number of other expenditure categories including academic support, student services...
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Technology's Edge : The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
Barrow, Lisa - 2009
We present results from a randomized study of a well-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program for pre-algebra and algebra. We assess the program using a test designed to target pre-algebra and algebra skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided...
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Books or Laptops? The Cost-Effectiveness of Shifting from Printed to Digital Delivery of Educational Content
Bando, Rosangela - 2016
Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This...
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide - 2014
We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey...
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Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks
Chevalier, Judith A.; Goolsbee, Austan - 2021
textbooks sold in psychology, biology and economics in the 10 semesters from 1997 to 2001, we estimate a demand system for books …
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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael; Moulin, Sylvie; … - 2021
This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....
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Government, Openness and Finance : Past and Present
Demetriadis, Panicos - 2010
We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised … finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that …
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How Does the U.S. Government Finance Fiscal Shocks?
Berndt, Antje - 2010
We develop a method for identifying and quantifying the fiscal channels that help finance government spending shocks …
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...
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On Fiscal Illusion and Ricardian Equivalence in Local Public Finance
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2012
We re-evaluate two forms of fiscal illusion in local public finance: debt illusion and renter illusion. The Ricardian … Equivalence Theorem for local governments suggests the form of finance of a public program (tax or debt finance) has no effects on … hundreds of open space referenda in the U.S. using a variety of finance mechanisms, we find evidence that households do prefer …
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