A school improvement program that provided support to poor-performing schools on the basis of needs identified in a school improvement plan was implemented in 72 government schools in Jamaica,from 1998 to 2005. In this independent evaluation of the program, we use propensity score matching to...

An increasing amount of empirical evidence suggests that patients with higher socioeconomic status wait less within publicly-funded hospitals to receive non-emergency (elective) surgery. Using data from Australia, we investigate the extent to which such gradient can be explained by sample...

Uses a disaggregated model of United Kingdom factor usage to provide estimates of demand and substitution elasticities for energy inputs. Estimates 19 sectors in a two-stage translog model including technical change, non-constant returns and four energy inputs. The results show considerable...

This longitudinal study provides primary evidence on the impact that a fast-track strategy in a hospital Emergency Department has on patient wait time. The study uses a discrete event simulation model to predict output within a variety of triage categories and compares these with...

Uses a disaggregated model of United Kingdom factor usage to provide estimates of demand and substitution elasticities for energy inputs. Estimates 19 sectors in a two‐stage translog model including technical change, non‐constant returns and four energy inputs. The results show considerable...