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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, Pam - 2010
any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462638
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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2006
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466200
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English Language Requirement and Educational Inequality : Evidence from 16 Million College Applicants in China
Li, Hongbin; Meng, Lingsheng; Mu, Kai; Wang, Shaoda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the unintended effect of English language requirement on educational inequality by investigating how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486253
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479428
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From Mill Town to Board Room : The Rise of Women's Paid Labor
Costa, Dora L. - 2000
In the twenty-first century many of the professional and high ranking managerial workers in the United States and in other OECD countries will be women. This change in women's social and economic status represents a dramatic break with the past, but one that can only be understood by looking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471162
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Licence to Dine : 007 and the Real Exchange Rate
Craig, Lee A.; Treme, Julianne; Weiss, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We constructed a time series of menu prices for the identifiable restaurants at which James Bond dined in France and … favorable for British travelers. To dine weekly in France, during the 1950s and 1960s, Bond would have spent 18 percent of his …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660093
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Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in European Countries During thePost-1950 Period
Schankerman, Mark - 1985
This paper examines the distribution of the values of patent rights in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477430
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478030
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478045
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Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?
Aguiar, Mark A. - 2020
Many households hold little wealth, especially liquid wealth. In precautionary savings models, absent preference heterogeneity, these households should display not only higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs), but also lower average propensities to consume (APCs) and higher future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479167