In this paper I present a dynamic structural model of girls’ schooling choices and estimate it using the Mexican PROGRESA database. This structural approach allows evaluating the effectiveness of several policies to increase school reentry rates for girls in low-income households. To increase school attendance among poor children in developing countries, policy makers have implemented condition...

Since the 1996/97 school year, the state of North Carolina has awarded bonuses of up to $1,500 to teachers in schools that exhibit test score gains above certain thresholds. This article reviews the details of the bonus program, describes patterns of differences between schools that qualify for bonuses of differing amounts, and presents basic data to address the question of whether the bonus pr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider how the level and structure of teacher salaries affect student outcomes and the possibility of improving student achievement in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis integrates an underlying economic model of the role of salaries in the teacher labor market with existing empirical results. Findings – Much of the current policy dis...

In performing team-based projects in engineering class, students usually face many problems, such as free-riding, lack of responsibility, boredom, and insufficient initiative. This papers proposes a new method for performing team-based projects in engineering class—specifically, a gamified method for team organization using a salary auction game. On the description of the design and use of a sa...

Temporal functional dependencies (TFDs) add a temporal component to clas-sical functional dependencies to deal with temporal data. As an example, whilefunctional dependencies model constraints like “employees with the same role getthe same salary”, TFDs can represent constraints like “for any given month, em-ployees with the same role have the same salary, but their salary may c...

We investigate asset-allocation strategies open to members of defined-contribution pension plans with a model that incorporates asset, salary (labour-income) and interest-rate risk. We propose a novel form of terminal utility function, incorporating habit formation, that uses the member’s final salary as a numeraire. The paper discusses various properties and characteristics of the optimal asse...

1 Swapnil Moghe, 2 Nitin Saini, 3 Ajay Pillai, 4 Anjali Moghe, 5 Kavita Pillai 1 (Assistant Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Peoples Dental Academy, Bhopal, India) 2 (Assistant Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, D.A.V (C) Dental college, Yamunanagar, India) 3 (Associate Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Peoples Dental Academy, Bho...

In his book The Law of Peoples, John Rawls adds an eighth law to his previous account: peoples have a duty to assist other peoples living under unfavorable conditions that prevent their having a just or decent political and social regime.” This addition is meant to show that Rawls’ proposal can give a plausible account of global economic justice, albeit a less egalitarian one than his cosmopoli...