The fate of the distressed debt issued by the 1836-1845 Republic of Texas has received surprisingly little attention …

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 …

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 …

Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …

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. …

is also shifting. It takes advantage of admission policy changes that occurred in the state of Texas with the Hopwood and …

Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP …

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 …

In 2011, the most severe drought in Texas history caused $7.62 billion in losses in the agricultural sector alone. This … paper analyzes ripple effects of the 2011 drought in Texas agriculture on the entire state economy retrospectively in an … to the results, the 2011 drought caused economic losses of $16.9 billion in the entire Texas economy and increased the …