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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...