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Full-Text Articles in Education
Unintended Consequences Of Property Tax Relief: New York's Star Program, Tae Ho Eom, William Duncombe, John Yinger
Unintended Consequences Of Property Tax Relief: New York's Star Program, Tae Ho Eom, William Duncombe, John Yinger
Center for Policy Research
New York’s School Tax Relief Program, STAR, provides state-funded property tax relief for homeowners. Like a matching grant, STAR changes the price of public services, thereby altering the incentives of voters and school officials and leading to unintended consequences. Using data for New York State school districts before and after STAR was implemented, we find that STAR resulted in small increases in student performance along with significant decreases in the efficiency with which this performance is delivered and significant increases in school spending and property tax rates. These tax-rate increases magnify existing inequities in New York State’s education finance system.
Twentieth Century Economics Of Child-Rearing In Japan, Michele Gibney
Twentieth Century Economics Of Child-Rearing In Japan, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
In order to explain the falling Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Japan, it is necessary to look at the social factors affecting women and raising children in Japan. By examining historical factors surrounding women in Japan—their education, their presence in the workforce, and the cultural stigmas attached to their stereotypical representation—I will attempt to describe the deteriorating TFR in Japan as an economic problem with political and social repercussions. In conclusion I will also try to provide a prognosis and a recommendation for a solution.
Thwarted Ambition: The Role Of Public Policy In University Development, Michael N. Bastedo
Thwarted Ambition: The Role Of Public Policy In University Development, Michael N. Bastedo
New England Journal of Public Policy
Paradoxically, Massachusetts is the home of a world-class system of private higher education and a struggling system of public higher education. The influence of private higher education and persistent indifference by state government repeatedly thwarted UMass’s ambition to increase its stature on the national scene. The result was a “boom or bust” cycle of financial support that made rational planning and institutional expansion extremely difficult, exacerbating the university’s late start toward world-class status.
Evaluating The Written Work Of Others: One Way Economics Students Can Learn To Write, Harlan M. Smith Ii, Amy Broughton, Jaime Copley
Evaluating The Written Work Of Others: One Way Economics Students Can Learn To Write, Harlan M. Smith Ii, Amy Broughton, Jaime Copley
Economics Faculty Research
The authors present a series of writing assignments that teaches students how to evaluate and critique the written economic work of others. The foundation text is McCloskey’s (2000) Economical Writing. The students’ dialogues with McCloskey, with each other, and with the authors of the pieces they evaluate sharpen their understanding of, and ability to use, language as an instrument of economic thought. Interviews with former students identify specific benefits from the student perspective of this approach. The authors show how the assignment series can be modified in several ways and how the general approach, as well as the foundation text, …
Department Of Economics Newsletter, V12, Winter 2005, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Economics.
Department Of Economics Newsletter, V12, Winter 2005, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Economics.
Department of Economics Newsletter
Inside This Issue:
--A Message From the Department Head
--Scholarship News
--New Scholarships
--Alumni News
--Another Field for Economists: The Football Field
--Economics Scholarship Contributors
--Alumni-In-Residence
--Reflections from Melissa, '99
--Reflections from Tom, '86
--How my Economics Major Served me in my Career and in Life
--Nicholas Sly, ‘04
--State Support and Higher Education
--The Economics Club
--Comments from Club President
--Janet Rives on Being Retired
--Departing Faculty...and New Faculty
--From Our Emeritus Faculty
--The Russia Trip - 2005
--Faculty Notes...as they report it!
--Center for Economic Education
Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Institute For Economic Development, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Institute For Economic Development, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Records
Digitized vertical file materials regarding the WKU Institute for Economic Development.
Analysis Of Job-Training Effects On Korean Women, Myoung-Jae Lee, S. J. Lee
Analysis Of Job-Training Effects On Korean Women, Myoung-Jae Lee, S. J. Lee
Research Collection School Of Economics
We analyse job-training effects on Korean women for the period January 1999 to March 2000, using a large data set of size about 52,000. We employ a number of estimation techniques: Weibull MLE and accelerated failure time approach, which are both parametric; Cox partial likelihood estimator, which is semiparametric; and two pair-matching estimators, which are in essence nonparametric. All of these methods gave the common conclusion that job training for Korean women increased their unemployment duration. The trainings were not cost-effective in the sense that they took too much time 'locking in' the trainees during the training span, compared with …
Education, Technological Progress And Economic Growth, Winston T. H. Koh, Hing-Man Leung
Education, Technological Progress And Economic Growth, Winston T. H. Koh, Hing-Man Leung
Research Collection School Of Economics
An important role of education – and the resultant accumulation of human capital – for a less-developed economy is to facilitate technology diffusion in order for it to catch up with developed economies. This paper presents a model linking education, the accumulation of physical capital and technological progress. In the model, investment in education and the accumulation of physical capital are complementary, and intertwine with the technology progress through related effects on technology diffusion and the expansion of the technology frontier. The allocation of effort to education, the optimal savings rate and the technology gap are endogenously determined in the …
An Examination Of The Effectiveness Of A Specific After-School Academic Intervention Program On The Success Of At Risk Students, Thomas A. Smith
An Examination Of The Effectiveness Of A Specific After-School Academic Intervention Program On The Success Of At Risk Students, Thomas A. Smith
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Private Information And Market Movements: New Evidence From The Wednesday Closings Of 1968, Thomas Berry
Private Information And Market Movements: New Evidence From The Wednesday Closings Of 1968, Thomas Berry
Thomas D Berry
No abstract provided.
Increasing The Economic Development Benefits Of Higher Education In Michigan, Timothy Bartik
Increasing The Economic Development Benefits Of Higher Education In Michigan, Timothy Bartik
Timothy J. Bartik
No abstract provided.