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Professor Greg Shaw On Politics And Our Knowledge Of Healthcare, Charlie Schlenker
Professor Greg Shaw On Politics And Our Knowledge Of Healthcare, Charlie Schlenker
Interviews for WGLT
IWU Professor of Political Science Greg Shaw discussing health care policy, and how his research shows the rhetoric around public health crisis affects what people know about it.
Modelling Public-Education Spending Vs. Allocation As Independent Factors Of Educational Outcomes, Kevin Tasley
Modelling Public-Education Spending Vs. Allocation As Independent Factors Of Educational Outcomes, Kevin Tasley
Undergraduate Economic Review
This paper explores and expands upon the work of Hanushek and Wößmann (2007) whose accumulated findings propose increased educational spending provides only marginal returns in terms of student’s cognitive outcomes. This study constructs an OLS regression model to explore the significance of U.S. state education spending and financial allocations as independent factors of state-level average ACT scores over a 10-year time series. The model additionally accounts for self-selection and socio-economic status. The results of this study support Hanushek and Wößmann’s conclusions while also demonstrating evidence that shifts in allocations towards instructional spending, as opposed to increasing total expenditures, could have …