Using prereform enrollment rate in primary school to measure the variation in the intensity of the impact of the reform, I estimate difference-in-differences models. The results suggest that the reform has substantially increased the probability the child enrolls in grade 1 by age 7. It is ...
The Study On Housewives` Allocation of Time and Analysis of Recurrence for the Increase in Demand for the Food Service Industry This study has been made on the basis of the theoretical model of Becker`s time allocation concerning housewives` advance into society-a primary cause for ... Ki,Yon...
Timetabling is the allocation, subject to constraints, of given resources to objects in space-time domain to satisfy a set of desirable objectives as nearly as possible. Particularly, the university timetabling problem for classes or lectures can be viewed as fixing in time and space a sequence ...
Second, the allocation of young people to upper-secondary programs is unlikely to be random. For example, more talented young people may take an apprenticeship rather than enter the labor market directly, while still more talented young people may remain in full-time schooling. If “talent' repr...
Memory & Cognition 1997,25 (5),691-700 Age differences in the allocation of study time account for age differences in memory performance JOHN DUNLOSKY University ofNorth Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina and LISA TABOR CONNOR Boston University School ofMedicine, Boston, Massachusetts How aging ...
Students' time allocation in a required third-year ambulatory care clerkship To assess time use by students during clinic sessions of an ambulatory care clerkship.All 207 third-year students at the Medical College of Wisconsin durin... SL Lawrence,DH Mark,PK Fulkerson,... - 《Academic Medicine...
This paper studies whether the allocation of childcare time differs across gender, parental employment and other characteristics in Spain. Results show that mothers provide substantially more care for Essential Needs Activities and Secondary Childcare than fathers, but the care for Educational Activities is...
Lavy (2012) exploits a policy experiment in Israeli elementary schools that changed the length of the school week and the time allocation to core subjects. He finds that more time at school on key tasks improves performance in mathematics, English and sciences, especially for students from low ...
Offered by financial institutions, these funds are commonly named by the year of retirement, such as Fund 2050. They shift their asset allocation to fewer stocks and more bonds so the fund becomes more conservative as you get closer to retirement age.3 ...
To overcome the fact that the levels of these inputs are functions of students' ability and past achievement, I use instrumental variables that are derived from two allocation rules that partly determine the level of weekly instruction hours and class size in Israeli primary schools. The ...