Graduating high school improves wellbeing. It is important to understand how policy affects high school graduation. This paper studies the impact of bank branching deregulation on high school graduation. The use of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 geocoded data focuses the results on...

Advocates of big-time college athletics posit large advertising effects from college football and men's basketball. Subsidies of about $20 million per year from universities to athletic department also motivate interest in this topic. Most research focuses on athletic success to quantify...

Credit markets affect the real economy in multiple ways. This paper utilizes variation in the timing of bank branching deregulation of 39 states between 1970 to 1994 as an exogenous proxy of credit availability to analyze the link between credit markets and educational outcomes. Using CPS data...

Considers there are two critical steps in implementing TQM. Asserts management must translate the quality guru′s message to the company′s culture and then integrate these activities into the normal mode of doing business. Describes the implementation plan. Discusses the active involvement of...