Medical school expenditures and student enrollment

Medical School Ranking and Student Research Opportunities.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to characterize the current state of student research opportunities in a sample of US medical schools ranked in three different tiers. METHODS The authors examined the websites for five US medical schools in each of the first, second, and third tiers per National Institutes of Health funding and U.S. News & World Report rankings. Available research opportunities wer...

Will increasing medical school enrollment solve Canada's physician supply problems?

Using shocks to school enrollment to estimate the effect of school size on student achievement

Previous studies of the connection between school enrollment size and student achievement use cross-sectional econometric models and thus do not account for unobserved heterogeneity across schools. To address this concern, I utilize school-level panel data, and generate first-differences estimates of the effect of school size on achievement. Moreover, to account for the possibility that trends ...

Longitudinal patterns of enrollment and expenditures for a Medicaid cohort

This article is based on 4 years of data for a cohort of Medicaid enrollees in California and Georgia to determine patterns of enrollment and expenditures. The analyses were developed from the statistical system known as Tape-to-Tape, which is based on Medicaid enrollment and claims files from these and other States. The composition of the cohort changed over times as a result of the differenti...

Trends in Texas high school student enrollment in mathematics, science, and CTE-STEM courses

Background: In the context of Texas of the USA, House Bill 5 signifies a major policy shift requiring entering high school students starting in fall 2014 to choose an endorsement, like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) being one of them, to provide students with earlier exposure to a coherent course sequence. As we barely understand students’ choices before the endorsemen...