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Book Synopsis Two Essays in Economic Education by :
Download or read book Two Essays in Economic Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior researchers (Anderson et al. 1994; Ballard & Johnson 2004; Hoag & Benedict 2010) have shown that different math abilities do not equally correlate with success in economics, yet no research has specifically compared algebra and geometry skills as predictors of economics success. In the first essay, I find that students' standardized geometry scores are a much greater predictor of success in economics than standardized algebra test scores. The study uses a rich data set that includes all Georgia public high school students who took a mandatory economics course in 2006, 2007, or 2008. Results from this study provide supporting evidence that utilizing a generic math proxy is probably unwise for researchers modeling economics success. These findings can also be used to strengthen recruitment efforts since geometry scores seem to be a strong predictor of economics aptitude. Although causality cannot be inferred from my findings, it is plausible that a mandatory geometry course prior to economics would improve student outcomes in economics. In the second essay, I analyze the relationship between economics education and macroeconomic policy attitudes of the general public following the financial crisis of 2008. Using survey data of all 50 states, I find that economics literacy is correlated with preferences for three of the six policies preferences studied. Specifically, economics literacy is positively correlated with support for decreased taxes and a smaller government, and negatively correlated with supporting a ceiling on CEO salaries. Additionally, the completion of college and high school economics is positively associated with supporting a decreased role of government. While prior researchers (Roos 2007; Walstad 1997) found that economics literacy can influence policy preferences, there have been no prior studies, to my knowledge, that analyzed the effects of economics knowledge and economics course-taking on policy preferences within the same dataset. My results show that economics literacy and course-taking exert independent effects on macroeconomic preferences for some policies. Thus, any researcher predicting economic preferences should consider controlling for these economics literacy and economics course-taking variables. Furthermore, my findings suggest that the advancing prevalence of economics education could lead to a shift in public preferences.
Book Synopsis Two Essays on the Economics of Education by : Nicolás A. Grau Veloso
Download or read book Two Essays on the Economics of Education written by Nicolás A. Grau Veloso and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on Political Economy by : Frédéric Bastiat
Download or read book Essays on Political Economy written by Frédéric Bastiat and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Essays in Economics of Education and Political Economy by : Pooya Almasi
Download or read book Two Essays in Economics of Education and Political Economy written by Pooya Almasi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of two unrelated topics in economics. One in economics of education and another one in political economy.
Book Synopsis Three Essays in Economics Education by : Ninos Pierre Malek
Download or read book Three Essays in Economics Education written by Ninos Pierre Malek and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shaping the Learning Curve by : Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
Download or read book Shaping the Learning Curve written by Franklin G. Mixon Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume contains a collection of essays that reflect a broad area of economic education inquiry ranging from teaching assessment to the philosophy of the classroom. Written by economics scholars from across the nation, this volume presents recent discoveries in presentation, assessment, and other aspects of economic education at colleges and universities in the U.S. These articles represent but a sample of the growing commentary among academics on the importance of effective teaching and economic education scholarship.
Book Synopsis Two Essays on Economic Sociology of Education and Two Essays on the Economics of Antitrust Law and Regulation by : Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Download or read book Two Essays on Economic Sociology of Education and Two Essays on the Economics of Antitrust Law and Regulation written by Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Essays on Increasing the Learning Effectiveness of Economics Education by : William Joseph McLean
Download or read book Two Essays on Increasing the Learning Effectiveness of Economics Education written by William Joseph McLean and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Essays on Economics of Education by : Nina Waldenström
Download or read book Two Essays on Economics of Education written by Nina Waldenström and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Essays in Political Economy of Education and Economics of Immigration by : Abdul-Ghaffar Mughal
Download or read book Two Essays in Political Economy of Education and Economics of Immigration written by Abdul-Ghaffar Mughal and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Essays on the Economics of Education and Inequality by : Justin Coger
Download or read book Two Essays on the Economics of Education and Inequality written by Justin Coger and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the first essay, I estimate the effects of high school advanced mathematics credits and mathematics SAT scores on the percentile rank of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) respondents on the income distribution of their age peers and the income of the NLSY97 adults by quantile in 2019. I utilize data on high school advanced mathematics credits, SAT mathematics scores, and income from the NLSY97. This essay contributes to the literature on the economic returns to high school mathematics coursework. Previous work has not examined the effects of advanced math credits and SAT math scores on the two outcomes that I examine. I find significant positive effects of advanced math credits on income percentile rank and income by quantile. I also find statistically significant effects of three different measures of exposure to STEM reform on the two labor market outcomes. The results have implications for educators and policy makers hoping to emphasize the importance of developing quantitative skills in preparation for the labor market.
Book Synopsis Essays in Economics of Education by : Clémence Idoux
Download or read book Essays in Economics of Education written by Clémence Idoux and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is composed of three essays on the economics of education. The first essay is about the heterogeneity of gains from selective school admission. The question of who benefits from selective school enrollment remains controversial. I show that Boston exam schools have heterogeneous effects on achievement. Impact differences are driven primarily by the quality of an applicant's non-exam-school alternative rather than by student demographic characteristics like race. Admission policies prioritizing students with the weakest schooling alternatives have the potential to increase the impact of exam schools on academic achievement. In particular, simulations of alternative admissions criteria suggests schemes that reserve seats for students with lower-quality neighborhood schools are likely to yield the largest gains. The second essay is about understanding the impact of selective school admission screens on segregation in New York City schools. 70 years after \textit{Brown v. Board of Education}, US school districts are still economically and racially segregated. School segregation is especially apparent in NYC, the largest US school district. I analyze the impact of two integration plans which reduced the role of screens in admission in two local NYC school districts. I show that abolishing selective admissions reduced both economic and racial segregation. Amending selective admission criteria also elicits substantial behavioral response from applicants. I find evidence that reducing the role of admission screens leads to White and high-income enrollment losses, which decreases the effect of the plans. On the other hand, applicants' changes in application behavior in response to the reforms increased the plans' impact on segregation. The final essay is about predicting the effect of changes in school admission on students' enrollment. Such predictions are based on estimated student preferences, which in turn are obtained from the ranked order lists they submit. A concern is that an applicant with fixed preferences might submit different lists when faced with different admission criteria. For instance, an applicant could strategically take into account their probability of admission at each school, therefore violating the truthfulness assumption. A solution is to estimate preferences allowing students to strategically choose over all possible lists, but this runs into the curse of dimensionality as the choice space is large. This paper provides a model of applicants' list formation which presumes applicants use a simple heuristic in selecting their lists. In the model, applicants fill their list sequentially, without fully internalizing the dynamic consequences of each choice. Using this simplification, I estimate applicants' preferences, circumventing the dimensionality problem. I leverage an admission reform in NYC to estimate the model. Allowing applicants to deviate from truthfulness affects substantially their estimated preferences.
Book Synopsis Essays on Inequality and the Economics of Education by : Mayuri Chaturvedi
Download or read book Essays on Inequality and the Economics of Education written by Mayuri Chaturvedi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation discusses some of the causes and consequences of inequality, vertical and horizontal, some theoretically and others empirically. In doing so, I try to touch upon old and new themes in the economics literature, as old as rent seeking and as new as the effect of cultural norms.The first essay reflects on the inequality of opportunity as manifest in the quality of education available to families in India. The paper explores the relative roles of the quality of schools and household attributes on a household's choice of school in India. I find that income is the most important predictor of a household's choice of school, with a doubling of per capita income increasing the likelihood of choosing a private school over a public school by 10 percentage points. Public schools can rarely compete with private schools even with comparable infrastructure and free school supplies. As incomes rise (India's GDP has nearly doubled in the last 10 years), it is reasonable to expect that there will be de facto higher demand for private schooling and not public.The second essay is a theoretical examination of inequality-generating rent seeking and the feedback mechanism between the two. In this paper, I model rent seeking in an unequal endowment economy to analyze the conditions under which more inequality leads to more rent seeking. I find that, when rent-seeking costs are fixed, a more unequal economy fosters a greater proportion of rentiers. When rent-seeking costs are flexible, the proportion of rentiers shrinks with more inequality. However, both the quantity of rents per person and the resources wasted in pursuing rent-seeking activities increase.In the third essay, I link the education choices of women to gender-specific norms of marriage. Hypergamy (the practice of women "marrying up" by caste, age, education or any indicator of economic well-being) implies that too much education could lower women's prospects of finding a suitable spouse. To understand its impact on pre-marital investments in education, this project studies women's choice of educational attainment as a function of men's. To do so, I examine the impact of an exogenous change in the schooling level of men on the schooling level of women in the United States in the last 50 years. The source of variation is the change in US' immigration policy in 1965, which has been documented to have considerably altered the demography and skill pool in the US since 1965. I find evidence of a positive relationship between men and women's education outcomes. This is a result suggestive of hypergamy and its dragging effect on women's education. The result is robust to the use of another control group: immigrant women in the US.
Book Synopsis Education Matters by : Alan B. Krueger
Download or read book Education Matters written by Alan B. Krueger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of economic research on education conducted by Krueger in the 1990s. The papers are divided into four major sections: estimating the payoff of completing more education; estimating the payoff of school quality; issues related to race and education; and changes in educational payoff over time, including technological change. A final two essays consider education and economic growth, with a focus on Sweden, and evaluate whether American schools are "broken." Krueger (economics and public affairs, Princeton U.) is also author of Education matters and served as the chief economist of the U.S. Labor Department of in 1994 and 1995. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Liberty and Property by : Ludwig Von Mises
Download or read book Liberty and Property written by Ludwig Von Mises and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1988 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally delivered as a lecture at Princeton University, October 1958, at the 9th meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society"--Page 7. Includes bibliographical references.
Book Synopsis Money, Method, and the Market Process by : Ludwig Von Mises
Download or read book Money, Method, and the Market Process written by Ludwig Von Mises and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-07-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement," have not been published previously. Others, like "The Idea of Liberty Is Western," have already made their mark on intellectual history. Brought together by Mrs. Mises after her husband's death, and edited with an introduction by Richard Ebeling, this volume fills an important gap in providing an overview of Ludwig von Mises's best academic work. For that reason, this book is already widely used in graduate courses and seminars on the resurgence of the Austrian School.
Book Synopsis A Report on Large Landholdings in Southern California, with Recommendations by : California Commission of Immigration and Housing
Download or read book A Report on Large Landholdings in Southern California, with Recommendations written by California Commission of Immigration and Housing and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
