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Are Charters the Best Alternative? A Cost Frontier Analysis
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-01)
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 ...
The Federal Reserve In Two Crises
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-11-16)
The country has experienced two economic crises in the first two decades of the 21st century, but there are significant differences between the 2008 crisis and the 2020 crisis caused by the pandemic. In this policy study, ...
Does Funding Create New Giving?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-05-01)
Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
The Pandemic Misery Index
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-03-18)
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it both human and economic loss. The Pandemic Misery Index, or PMI, is a simple metric that measures the effectiveness of pandemic-related public policies by combining the unemployment ...
The Federal Reserve, the Great Recession and the Lost Inflation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-07-01)
Ever since the Federal Reserve began its series of Quantitative Easing, traditional monetary economists have been predicting levels of inflation that would rival the inflation of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. The ...
Texas Pension Woes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-12)
The unfunded liabilities from Texas’ many state and local defined benefit pension plans, or the amount a pension fund’s assets cannot cover its liabilities, have snowballed over time and have recently reached unprecedented ...
The College Station-Bryan Economy Presentation, Updated 10/26/2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-11-04)
The presentation includes information on: The College Station-Bryan Business-Cycle Index, Business-Cycle, nonfarm employment, taxable sales, and unemployment rates through August 2022; Real total wages through the first ...
The College Station-Bryan Economy Presentation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-08-24)
The presentation includes information on: National real gross domestic product through the second quarter of 2021; ; Real personal consumption expenditures through June 2021; July’s National nonfarm employment; Texas ...
Workforce Demand and the Skills Gap in Texas
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-06)
Community colleges are an important provider of educational services and play a critical role in meeting the workforce demands of Texas employers. This study focuses on the role of community colleges as occupational skills ...
The Federal Reserve: Back to the Past
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-10-01)
The Federal Reserve's payment of interest on bank reserves balances has transformed the balances to investments rather than just insurance against a run on the banking system. The paying of interest on reserves allowed the ...