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The fate of the distressed debt issued by the 1836-1845 Republic of Texas has received surprisingly little attention …
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uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the … but becomes especially large in Texas after incorporating noise from imputing its considerable missing data. …
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. I analyze the timing of bargaining and the causes of delay using a cross-section of insurance claims in Texas over a 20 …
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There have long been claims that compensations for noneconomic damages are random because tort law does not provide clear guidance regarding these compensations. I investigate, in both settled and tried medical malpractice cases, whether noneconomic damage payments are arbitrary and what...
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which affected GED test takers in Texas. We utilize unique data from the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP) which contain … demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment … Insurance quarterly wage records from the Texas Workforce Commission. Comparing Texas dropouts who acquired a GED before the …
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from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority … hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …
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Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …
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is also shifting. It takes advantage of admission policy changes that occurred in the state of Texas with the Hopwood and …
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We merge the longitudinally linked historical U.S. Census records with data on lynchings of Hispanics in Texas to … investigate the impacts of historical lynchings of ethnic Mexicans in Texas on U.S.-born Mexicans Americans. Using variation in …
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