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Michigan and Ohio K–12 Educational Financing Systems: Equality and Efficiency
Conlin, Michael; Thompson, Paul N. - In: Education Finance and Policy 9 (2014) 4, pp. 417-445
We consider issues of equality and efficiency in two different school funding systems -- a state-level system in Michigan and a foundation system in Ohio. Unlike Ohio, the Michigan system restricts districts from generating property or income tax revenue to fund operating expenditures. In both...
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The Unintended Consequences of Property Tax Relief: New York’s STAR Program
Eom, Tae Ho; Duncombe, William; Nguyen-Hoang, Phuong; … - In: Education Finance and Policy 9 (2014) 4, pp. 446-480
grant, STAR changes the price of education, thereby altering the incentives of voters and school officials and leading to … inequities in New York State’s education finance system, particularly compared to an equal-cost increase in state aid. This … article should be of interest to policy makers involved in property taxes or other aspects of education finance. © 2014 …
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Education policies and health inequalities: Evidence from changes in the distribution of Body Mass Index in France, 1981–2003
Etile, Fabrice - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2013
This paper contributes to the debate over the effectiveness of education policies in reducing overall health … are used to decompose the contribution of education to the changing distribution of Body Mass Index (BMI) in France …, between 1981 and 2003, into a composition effect (the shift in population education due to a massive educational expansion …
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Middle East Transitions: A Long, Hard Road
Yusuf, Shahid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
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Mauritius The Drivers of Growth—Can the Past be Extended?
Svirydzenka, Katsiaryna; Petri, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
savings rates; (ii) improving the efficiency of social spending and public enterprise reforms; (iii) investment in education … and education reforms; (iii) labor market reforms; and (iv) further measures to reduce bottlenecks and increase …
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STRUGGLES TO ESCAPE POVERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA: RESULTS FROM A PURPOSIVE RURAL SURVEY
Sender, John - Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African … - 2000
Results of a purposive sample of the poorest are contrasted with the methods and conclusions of other research into ‘income poverty’. The deprivation suffered by an important class of rural women in South Africa is documented. Escape routes from poverty are described that have a...
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Implementing Ready To Learn Outreach: Lessons from 20 Public Television Stations.
Vogel, Cheri; Uhl, Stacey; Boller, Kimberly; Humphrey, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2002
Learn</I>, a Public Broadcasting Service and U.S. Department of Education initiative to help enhance children’s readiness …
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Could an Increase in Education Raise Income Inequality? Evidence for Latin America
Battistón, Diego; García-Domench, Carolina; … - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 51 (2014) 1, pp. 1-39
This paper explores the direct ef fect of an education expansion on the level of earnings inequality by carrying out … microsimulations for most Latin American countries. We find that the direct ef fect of the increase in years of education in the region … in the 1990s and 2000s was unequalizing; this result is expected to hold for future expansions if increases in education …
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How individual characteristics shape the structure of social networks
Schunk, Daniel; Girard, Yann; Hett, Florian - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2014
We study how students’ social networks emerge by documenting systematic patterns in the process of friendship formation of incoming students; these students all start out in a new environment and thus jointly create a new social network. As a specific novelty, we consider cooperativeness, time...
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Introduction
Eswaran, Mukesh - Princeton University Press
been empowered through access to education, credit, healthcare, and birth control; changes in ownership laws; the …
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