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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 ...
HOW EDUCATION CONTRIBUTED TO U.S. HOUSEHOLD WEALTH CHANGES DURING THE 2008 ECONOMIC SHOCK?
(Georgetown University, 2017)
The Great Recession in 2008 cost American households trillions of dollars, and years after the shock, some families are still feeling the crush. However, the amount of losses or gains during the crisis vary across the ...
EFFECT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON ADULT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS
(Georgetown University, 2012)
In recent years, the role of socioeconomic inequities in influencing diseases and health conditions has become an important issue in health and socioeconomic policy development. It is not surprising that cardiovascular ...
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: ...
Examing the Effects of Early Maternal Employment on Child Outcomes at School Age
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This study examines the effects of maternal employment during the first year of a child's life on their cognitive and non-cognitive development at age nine using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. ...
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 Racial Segregation and Educational Achievement: Looking at New York City Public High Schools
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Over the last thirty years, public schools throughout the United States have experienced de facto resegregation. The effects are especially pronounced in New York State, which now has the most racially segregated public ...
The Relationship Between Parental Receipt of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Children's High School Dropout Status
(Georgetown University, 2012)
The Earned Income Tax Credit was established to provide low-income families with relief from the payroll tax, but it has grown over time to become the largest means tested cash transfer program and one of the most substantial ...
Assessing the Impact of The Gates Millennium Scholars Program on College Achievement Through the Lens of Segregated Schooling
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This paper seeks to examine how low-income, high-achieving minority students are impacted on metrics of college achievement based on receiving funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Millennium Scholars (GMS) ...