Answering Your Questions About Continuing Education – Economix …

Tara Siegel Bernard and Catherine Rampell answer readers’ questions about financing their continuing educations , and how to find programs that put them on a good career path.

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Universal early education in the US: Gains and shortcomings | vox …

Proponents of universal early education hope that such investments will yield long-term socioeconomic benefits. This column presents evidence that state governments funding public kindergartens in the US actually widened socioeconomic …

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Free Advice: Is It a Curse to Have a Printing Press?

Rather than pick apart the fallacies, let me try this approach: Suppose you have two printing presses. One of them cranks out US dollar bills, which are indistinguishable from the real thing. The other cranks out Monopoly money.

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Environmental Economics: I've missed a few pickup basketball games …

From the inbox:John, I am assuming that your noticeable absence means that you have joined an elite administrator’s game . I just want to let you know that despite that fact you are welcome to return and play amongst the paeans any time.

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Marginal Revolution: What are health care co-ops?

If, say, rescission is a major problem, why do not health insurance customers seek out health insurance mutuals or co-ops, both of which offer the possibility of greater consumer control and thus less opportunism from the supplier. …

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Calculated Risk: Home Seller Motivations

We told respondents, “Please think of the number of non-REO listings you currently have and then specify the number of home sellers by motivation. If more than one motivation applies, please select the single motivation that is most …

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Not PC: Gluckman versus science

As a non-active non-climate researcher himself, and on the back of just one month of being schooled up by warmist zealots on the science of “climate change,” he told an audience over the weekend that “there are some scientists, …

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Calculated Risk: Health Care Spending and PCE

These statistics, termed National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA), are compiled with the goal of measuring the total amount spent in the United States to purchase health care goods and services during the year. …

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Geary Behavioural Economics Blog: Science and Technology Teaching

Several commentators point to low levels of higher-level maths take-up, continuing low popularity of science /maths courses and so on as evidence of a crisis in Irish education that could damage national competitiveness.

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WVU Today » Press Release » WVU Center for Executive Education …

WVU News and Information Services – News Release – WVU Center for Executive Education names director – Thursday, August 13, 2009.

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