This article has two main purposes: to report a case study of an evaluation of a junior high math innovation that matched teachingstyleswithstudents'learningstyles, and to discuss illuminative evaluation as a methodology for formative evaluation.

A number of previous studies (Barro and Sala-i-Martin, Grier) have attempted to gauge the differential impact of regressors such as human capital and investment on the performance of fast and slow growing economies. To date, most such studies impose a single marginal impact on all countries for...

This paper examines inflation in three Latin American nations. All of the nations have experienced higher-than-desired inflation in years past, and all have seen a palpable decrease in inflation in recent decades. We thus test for structural change in the dynamics of inflation. We find that all...

We examine inflation and uncertainty in the UK with a version of the Markov Switching model, which allows for changes in the variance as well as in the mean and persistence of a series. We find that the UK’s attempts at exchange rate pegs in the form of shadowing the deutschmark and entering...

Two recent empirical papers have blamed the Fed for the latest boom and bust in housing. Neither study includes long-term interest rates, which are more affected by global factors than the federal funds rate (FFR). In this paper, I include both the mortgage rate and the FFR as determinants of...

There is a growing literature on nonlinear monetary policy in industrialized countries. These investigations have revealed that the reaction of central banks to economic variables depends on the level of such variables, confirming the nonlinearity of policy in the industrialized world....