Browsing by Author "Taylor, Lori"
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Perez, Paige Cleveland (2016-07-07)Teachers of color are the most effective educators of students of color—or are they? Policies have sought to improve the educational outcomes of students of color by hiring and retaining teachers of color, and they have ...
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Beard, Ryan Jamail (2014-12-04)This study was a quantitative examination of the equity of state appropriations allocated to public higher education institutions in Florida and Texas through state appropriations. This study was actively directed toward ...
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Gronberg, Timothy; Jansen, Dennis; Taylor, Lori (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-01-01)Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
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Qin, Lixia (2019-03-25)Most of the teacher distribution and turnover studies have built on within-country analysis. The results from those studies, however, are often inconsistent. The purpose of my dissertation research is to investigate the ...
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Pakdeethai, Pimrak (2010-10-12)This dissertation contains two essays on the effect of welfare reform on child- birth, marriage, and divorce. In the first essay, I exploit the cross state variation in welfare reform implementation to identify its effect ...
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The Effects of the Texas Top 10% Plan on High School to University Feeder Patterns and Diploma Types Tabron, Lolita Antoinette (2016-07-27)This study was an investigation of the effects of the University of Texas admission cap on a school’s odds of being a Texas Flagship feeder school and a student’s likelihood of earning a college preparatory diploma. ...
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Hokom, Meghan Ann (2021-06-02)Disproportionate enrollment of minorities in special education has been an equity issue in the United States for decades (Artiles, et al., 2010), often leading to case law and policy changes to provide corrective action. ...
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Chutubtim, Piyaluk (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation examines the effect of changes in the stock of human capital on the labor force participation decision of women aged 25-54. Without the option of homebased work, some women choose to leave the labor market ...
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Koppa, Vijetha (2016-06-13)The government implements various programs and policies with the intention of increasing social welfare. While it is important to evaluate the effects of these initiatives, conducting experiments to determine the implications ...
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Lozano, Ricardo Viviano (2012-07-16)Studies on returns to education disagree as to where these returns are highest. It is suggested that these disagreements are the result of inconsistencies in the data and methodologies used for their estimation. These ...
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Taylor, Lori; Noriega, Roger; Orrenius, Pia (2016-09-19)
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Gouard, Jimmy S. (2015-12-01)Voluminous studies of performance-based compensation for teachers have been conducted to ascertain the dynamics of programs that are successful in improving teacher effectiveness and in turn student achievement. Few studies ...
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Steele, Ryan (2013-11-01)The purpose of this record of study was to analyze efficiency in Texas public schools through the use of the Financial Allocation Study of Texas (FAST). A quantitative analysis of the FAST was conducted using ordered ...
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Pellerano Guzman, Jose (2013-12-04)This paper recovers consumer search cost estimates in airline markets consistent with theoretical search models. We follow an empirical framework developed in the recent literature on the structural estimation of search ...
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Collins, Courtney (2011-08-08)This dissertation analyzes the effect of smaller classes on student performance using student-level test score data from the state of Texas, focusing on three specific issues: heterogeneity in the returns to smaller classes ...
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Leonard, Megan de Linde (2009-05-15)Women, on average, are found in systematically different careers than men. The reason for this phenomenon is not fully understood, in part because expectations play a vital role in the process of career choice. Different ...
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Padilla Romo, Maria Del Socorro (2017-05-05)This dissertation introduces three essays on the effects of different public policies on crime, education, and labor outcomes using quasi-experimental research designs. These policies include targeting high-ranked members ...