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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Policy variable"”.
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Spatial Distribution of Best Management Practices for Stormwater Management
For policy implications, it is discussed that (1) functional guidelines and inner jurisdictional partnership might be useful for both resource and institutional efficiency based planning; (2) the estimated locational marginal cost ($/ac) are introduced as a policy variable to stormwater utility fee …
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The effect of 'opportunity-to-learn' and classroom pedagogy on mathematics achievement in schools serving low socio-economic status communities in the Cape Peninsula
An assumption evident in South African education policy documents is that making available a learner-centred pedagogy is the most effective approach to improving educational quality in classrooms and achieving greater equality in achievement outcomes for socio-economically disadvantaged learners. …
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Public Expenditure and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Nigeria
… Real public expenditure/GDP ratio is used as the policy variable and the simulation duration is for 5-years, 2016-2020. We use the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure by Pesaran et al. (2001) to estimate the two models, given that the annual data used for the models’ …
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Inequality in health care utilization and equity: a cross-country comparision of low and middle income countries
… time in the literature to quantify the effect of policy change on disparity. Then this tool is used to quantify the effect of policy change on disparity in health care utilization, education and income. </p> <p>Major findings of this dissertation are: (1) Statistically significant inequality exist …
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Estimating Matriculation with a Focus on Financial Aid and Test Optional Policies: Data from a Liberal Arts Institution in the Northeast
… between (1) institutional financial aid variables, (2) a dummy variable of being test optional in the admissions process or not, and (3) the interaction between the two.</p> <p>General findings of multivariate probit regression analysis reveal that admitted students who file a FAFSA …
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Reforming Curriculum in A Centralized System: An Examination of the Relationships between Teacher Implementation of Student-Centered Pedagogy and High Stakes Teacher Evaluation Policies in China
… classroom-level SCP implementation variables, and a high stakes teacher evaluation policy variable, on SCP implementation levels reported by high school teachers in a selected school district in China. The overall aim of the research was to study relationships among a number of …
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Knowledge networks and innovation policy
… support of networking as part of innovation policy. The current study examines the microstructure of knowledge diffusion and innovation processes and aims to find guidelines for innovation policy design from this perspective. Its goals are to find out (1) what role do knowledge sharing …