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Evidence Of Competition Between Law Schools, Naushaba Zaman
Evidence Of Competition Between Law Schools, Naushaba Zaman
Economics Theses
The purpose of this paper is to measure how competition affects tuition rates of law schools. I hypothesize that the tuition rates will go up as concentration of law schools increase. To examine how tuition varies with competition, I need to measure market structure. A variety of measures are available, such as C4, C8, and HHI; all of which have some relationship to the degree of competitiveness in an industry. I primarily use HHI as the concentration measure in this paper. I make two models for my thesis. In my first model I use a statewide measure of competition, assuming …
School Responses To High-Stakes Testing, Mishuk Anwar Chowdhury
School Responses To High-Stakes Testing, Mishuk Anwar Chowdhury
Economics Theses
This paper analyzes school's responses to high stakes testing. Using a grade level panel dataset from Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) for reading and math tests for 2003 through 2006, to find schools responses to failure. I find that there is a tendency for schools to shift resources from subjects that they pass to subjects that they fail. I classify schools' responses as either substitution responses or scale responses. A school has a substitution response if, when it fails to meet the state's required passing rate threshold for one subject for one cohort of students, it shifts resources …
Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Data And Code, Karen M. Pence
Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Data And Code, Karen M. Pence
Karen M. Pence
Data and code for "The Role of Wealth Transformations"