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Teacher Perceptions and School Level Misconduct: Is There a Link?
(2006-04-18)
With the passage of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB Act), much of the rhetoric surrounding education policy has centered on standards-based reforms. Perhaps as a result of this emphasis, improvements in both math and science ...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NCLB MEASURES OF TEACHER QUALITY AND CHANGES IN CALIFORNIA'S HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE GAINS FROM 1999-2005
(2006-04-18)
Previous research indicates that teachers indeed matter for the improvement of students' educational outcomes, but getting good measures of what is meant by teacher quality is a continuing challenge (Goldhaber, 2002). This ...
The Impact of Formal and Informal Channels on Mexican Migrant Remittances
(2006-04-17)
As Mexico's remittances steadily rises, Mexican migration flow into the U.S. is decreasing. This indicates that migrants are remitting more money than in previous years. With the migrant demographic population unchanged, ...
Does Trade Improve Income Inequality? A Study in Agricultural and Manufacturing Trade
(2006-04-18)
Previous studies have estimated that close to a half a billion people globally could be raised out of poverty through the economic benefits of unilateral trade liberalization. However, such a drastic change in policy would ...
The School Breakfast Program's Effect on Childhood Overweight Status
(2006-04-18)
This study attempts to measure the linkages between participation in the School Breakfast Program and children's nutritional status. The effects of the School Breakfast Program are examined using short term indicators ...
Health Insurance and Health Care Access in China
(2008-04-28)
The Chinese government has made recent efforts to expand health insurance to rural areas that have been primarily dependent upon private health care providers. Because private providers do not accept insurance, the insurance ...
Insurance status, health care access, and adolescent smoking initiation
(2007-04-18)
Tobacco is the single leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and the majority of adults who smoke first tried cigarettes before they were 18 years old. Identifying the factors that encourage children and ...
Third Party Candidates And Voter Turnout: Policy Implications For Public Financing Of Presidential Elections
(2008-04-09)
Given the soaring cost of mounting a presidential run, public campaign financing for elections is a policy issue overdue for reform. The financial advantage held by major party candidates in the 2008 election effectively ...
Food aid's effect on individual agricultural labor: the case of Bangladesh after the 1998 flood
(2007-04-10)
Food aid is accused of causing labor disincentives, yet little empirical evidence
tests this theory. In this paper, I use a panel survey from Bangladesh after the 1998
flood to investigate whether in-kind food aid created ...
An analysis of 8th and 10th graders who smoke
(2007-04)
The following work contributes to previous research done on youth smoking in an effort to get at who, among our children, is smoking cigarettes. Predicated on the theory that public policy programs can be more effective ...