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The Role of Ethnicity and Education in Energy Efficient Technology Adoption
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The Energy Star program is a voluntary labeling scheme used to promote the purchase of energy efficient products. In this paper, I studied U.S. consumer choices to purchase Energy Star refrigerators. I predicted that ...
Relationship Between Economic Activity and the Size of the International Student Population in OECD Countries
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Education has become a global business and tertiary education is the biggest contributor. From 1975 to 2011, the number of international students enrolled in tertiary education among the OECD countries grew from 0.8 million ...
An Analysis of the Effect of School Quality on Transfer Student Achievement
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Several education policies prominent in recent years, such as school closings and school choice, increase student mobility in order to move students to better performing schools. There is a large research base demonstrating ...
The Effects of Parents' Education Levels on Students' Persistence in College
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study examines the effects of parental educational attainment levels on students' first-to-second year persistence in college. Data for the present study are drawn from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: ...
The Relationship Between Sibship Size and Educational Achievement
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Researchers have long been interested in the relationship between children's number of siblings and educational achievement. This relationship has been consistently found to be negative with very few exceptions. However, ...
The Relationship between Publicly Funded Preschool and Fourth-Grade Math Test Scores: A State-Level Analysis
(Georgetown University, 2014)
In recognition of the potential long-term benefits of early education programs, significant public investments have been made in preschool programs such as Head Start, state-funded pre-kindergarten, and special education ...
The Relationship between Income and Education and Support for Democracy in Six Arab Countries
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Using public opinion survey data from Arab Barometer Project Wave I, this study investigates the relationship income and education and support for democracy in six Arab countries: Yemen, Morocco, Palestine, Algeria, Lebanon, ...