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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul - 2000
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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Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education
Webber, Douglas A. - 2009
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 - 2008
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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Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks
Chevalier, Judith - 2005
Popular wisdom holds that publishers revise college textbooks mainly to kill off the secondary market for used books. While this behavior might be profitable if consumers are myopic, uninformed or have high short-run discount rates (that exceed the publishers'), neoclassical authors have noted...
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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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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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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
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Constraints on Large-Block Shareholders
Holderness, Clifford G. - 1998
that the law constrains managerial majority shareholders, both in their day-to-day management and when they redeem the …
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Management Ownership and Corporate Performance : An Empirical Analysis
Morck, Randall - 1986
We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a …
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The Effect of the Union Wage Differential on Management Opposition and Union Organizing Success
Freeman, Richard B. - 1985
. It reduces organizing success by lowering profits, thus giving management a greater incentive to oppose unions. It shows … that in the traditional monopoly model, any given premium can cause management to donate more resources to opposing a union …
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