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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

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 - 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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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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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process

Ellison, Glenn - 2000

top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …

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Marshall's Economies

Henderson, Vernon - 1999

This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...

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Can Capital Mobility be Destabilizing?

Meng, Qinglai - 1999

In a standard two-sector neoclassical model with distortions, capital mobility can render the steady state indeterminate, in the sense that there exist infinitely many convergent paths. In the closed economy with no international capital mobility, the utility function must be linear or close to...

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A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1999

This paper develops a rent-protection theory of corporate ownership structure - and in particular, of the choice between concentrated and dispersed ownership of corporate shares and votes. The paper analyzes the decision of a company's initial owner whether to maintain a lock on control when the...

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