Felton, Mitchell and Stinson (2004) reported that web-based student evaluations of teaching (SET) demonstrated a student preference for course easiness and instructor sexiness. This study explores these same relationships with a larger and improved database. Results indicate even stronger...

Looking back upon the centuries one would suspect that in earlier ages universities of medieval France and Italy were very different from the multiplicity of organizational and institutional forms of higher education institutions in modern times, and yet one would be surprised how much these old...

In this study I assessed why the phenomenon of system transfer influences perceptions of association between education and development in Mozambique. I analyze the interaction of key concepts, i.e., education, development, and system transfer within the frameworks of economic nationalism,...

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain either a concept-based, quot;generalquot; education or a skill-specific, quot;vocationalquot; education. General education is more costly to obtain, but reduces the loss of a...

This paper is situated in the relatively new tradition of learning stories to expose the approach to transdisciplinary learning in an authentic sense. Specifically, it focuses on the cases of two classroom discussions in philosophy course of Zhejiang University which is campus-wide course and...

There is a large literature which explores how negative income shocks impact human capital accumulation (especially education) when financial markets are incomplete and households can neither insure nor borrow to smooth their consumption. The main conclusion is that households in these...

Using the PSID Child Supplement and PSID main datasets, we examine whether homeownership has positive effects on child outcomes after correcting for selectivity bias and controlling for the independent effects of home environment, neighborhood quality, residential stability, and income. After...

This paper reports on the education segment of the USAID Accounting Reform Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The USAID program trained both professors and practitioners. The author was a consultant for the private consulting firm that won the USAID contract for Bosnia and Herzegovina

This paper describes and summarizes the USAID Accounting Reform Project in Armenia. After a brief introduction that discusses the history and culture of Armenia, the paper goes into a discussion of the major aspects of accounting reform, which included assisting the Finance Ministry adopt and...