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This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that … Mexico are between 8.2% and 8.4 %. On the other hand, results by level of education suggest that more education is associated …
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We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. We have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of laptop delivery for every student in...
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This paper's study of Connecticut's education costs can serve as the foundation of an equitable and adequate state education aid formula. To the best of the author's knowledge, it is the first cost function study of Connecticut public K-12 education. The author uses a regression model to...
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After being sued for inequity and inadequacy in school funding, many states have reformed their education aid policies. Using Connecticut as an example, this paper shows how to design a state education aid formula that can effectively address funding inequity and inadequacy while taking...
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In the specialised literature there are several established models and methods for measuring the time required to fill the gap between various systems, by assessing the rate of development required to reach a certain reference level in a determined period of time. These models are known as...
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We examine the impact of subsidized housing on homelessness using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the largest place-based housing program in the United States. To generate quasi-experimental variation in housing placements, we exploit a discontinuous increase in the amount of tax...
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This article applies fuzzy set theory to measure three dimensions of poverty in Mexico: monetary poverty, non … poverty used in Mexico, for urban and rural areas and for the total of households and individuals in Mexico from 1994 to 2006 … significant changes along time. Results show that, although poverty in Mexico has diminished between 1994 and 2006, its evolution …
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activity in Mexico is measured using regional coincident indexes recently developed at Banco de México, while US aggregate …
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's academic performance using the case of Mexico. In general, access to free health insurance could improve education outcomes …
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During the last years, Mexico has registered relatively large output falls. The business cycle accounting method of … Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan (2007) is applied to the two most recent recessions in Mexico (including the 'Tequila crisis') in …
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