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Measure for Measure : The Relationship between Measures of Instructional Practice in Middle School English Language Arts and Teachers' Value-Added Scores
Grossman, Pamela - 2015
any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …
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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2010
. Language acquisition is an important element in immigrant/native earnings convergence, but most of this convergence is … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of … with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit …
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An Extra Year to Learn English? Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners
Figlio, David N. - 2019
, students whose first language is Spanish, and students in lower-poverty elementary schools …
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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle
Kydland, Finn - 2012
Over the U.S. business cycle, fluctuations in residential investment are well known to systematically lead GDP. These dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is broadly coincident with GDP. Nonresidential investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099826
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Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?
Dubois, Pierre - 2013
Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … prices and characteristics are important and can explain some difference (e.g., US-France difference in caloric intake), but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087450
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Labor Laws and Innovation
Acharya, Viral V. - 2014
Stringent labor laws can provide firms a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby spur their employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify this effect by exploiting the time-series variation...
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Global Inequality Dynamics : New Findings from Wid.World
Alvaredo, Facundo - 2017
.world), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, and the United …
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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective
Stabile, Mark - 2013
This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838354
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International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2008
We estimate the degree of amp;apos;stickinessamp;apos; in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a...
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