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Evidenzbasierte Bildungspolitik: Beiträge der Bildungsökonomie
Weiss, Manfred (contributor) - 2006
Nach langen Jahren der Abstinenz in der Politikberatung ist seit einiger Zeit ein deutlicher Wiederanstieg des 'politischen Kurswertes' der Bildungsökonomie zu verzeichnen. Unübersehbar ist die Tendenz, ihr eine wichtigere Politik unterstützende Rolle zuzuweisen. Die verschärften...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492646
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Does school integration generate peer effects? : Evidence from Boston's Metco program
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - 2004
Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper, we study Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent suburban districts. Metco increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261665
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Skill policies for Scotland
Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274195
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Human Capital Policy
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003
This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274200
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Skill Policies for Scotland
Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2004
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274209
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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274215
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Property value assessment growth limits, tax base erosion and regional in-migration
Skidmore, Mark; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2010
In 1994 a limit on the growth of property values for tax purposes was imposed in Michigan. One consequence of the newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276864
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Mr. Rosaen's magical thinking: A short evaluation of Alex Rosaen's 2013 prevailing wage methodology
Philips, Peter - 2013
This paper critically reviews Alex L. Rosaen, The Impact of Michigan's Prevailing Wage Law on Education Construction … Expenditures, Anderson Economic Group, LLC, Commissioned by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, 2013. It is shown … that Rosaen's estimates of the prevailing wage regulatory impact on Michigan educational capital outlays swing widely from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369467
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Shifting confidence in homeownership: The great recession
Bracha, Anat; Jamison, Julian C. - 2012
The authors study the responses to several questions related to real estate that were added to the Michigan Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377448
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Workplace Education Programs in Small- and Medium-Sized Michigan Firms
Hollenbeck, Kevin - 1992
(less than 500 employees) in Michigan. Specifically, it addresses why some firms are offering and other firms are not … these programs on firms and employees. The paper draws upon two data sources. Case studies of 28 Michigan businesses were … undertaken between May 1991 and July 1992 and a combination mail/telephone survey of small businesses in Michigan was conducted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763177