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When calculating financial need, the FAFSA does not consider the parental income of students who turn 24 years old. This paper uses the student’s quarter of birth interacted with the treated cohort to instrument for financial need. Using the interaction mitigates many of the concerns regarding quarter of birth instruments. A dollar increase in financial need is associated with 15 cents in feder...

window analysis is a known technique to evaluate performance during the time periods based on data envelopment analysis. in application of window analysis is assumed that efficient frontier have not changed during the periods in the study. unlike the window analysis, malmquist index tries to identify difference between efficient frontiers and separated them. but the means of different frontier ...

And-Parallel Machines* Nachum Dershowitz and Naomi Lindenstrauss Department of Computer Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel The deterministic Turing machine, though abstract, can still be seen as a model of a realistic computer. The same cannot be said for the nondeterministic Turing machine as a model of parallel computing. We introduce several abstract machines with fine-g...