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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...