1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Detecting Influential Observations and Outliers. 3. Detecting and Assessing Collinearity. 4. Applications and Remedies. 5. Research Issues and Directions for Extensions. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity

This meta-analysis reviewed the literature on socioeconomic status (SES) and academic achievement in journal articles published between 1990 and 2000. The sample included 101,157 students, 6,871 schools, and 128 school districts gathered from 74 independent samples. The results showed a medium to strong SES–achievement relation. This relation, however, is moderated by the unit, the source, the range of SES variable, and the type of SES–achievement measure. The relation is also contingent upon school level, minority status, and school location. The author conducted a replica of White’s (1982) meta-analysis to see whether the SES–achievement correlation had changed since White’s initial review was published. The results showed a slight decrease in the average correlation. Practical implications for future research and policy are discussed.

Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analytic Review of Research

The relationship between school resources and student achievement has been controversial, in large part because it calls into question a variety of traditional policy approaches. This article reviews the available educational production literature, updating previous summaries. The close to 400 studies of student achievement demonstrate that there is not a strong or consistent relationship between student performance and school resources, at least after variations in family inputs are taken into account. These results are also reconciled with meta-analytic approaches and with other investigations on how school resources affect labor market outcomes. Simple resource policies hold little hope for improving student outcomes.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1164207.pdf

Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An Update

This accessible guide provides clear, practical explanations of key research methods in business studies, presenting a step-by-step approach to data collection, analysis and problem solving. Readers will learn how to formulate a research question, choose an appropriate research method, argue and motivate, collect and analyse data, and present findings in a logical and convincing manner. The authors evaluate various qualitative and quantitative methods and their consequences, guiding readers to the most appropriate research design for particular questions. Furthermore, the authors provide instructions on how to write reports and dissertations in a clearly structured and concise style. Now in its fifth edition, this popular textbook includes new and dedicated chapters on data collection for qualitative research, qualitative data analysis, data collection for quantitative research, multiple regression, and additional methods of quantitative analysis. Cases and examples have been updated throughout, increasing the applicability of these research methods across various situations.

Research methods in business studies

The origin and propagation of the European sovereign debt crisis can be attributed to the flawed original design of the euro. In particular, there was an incomplete understanding of the fragility of a monetary union under crisis conditions, especially in the absence of banking union and other European-level buffer mechanisms. Moreover, the inherent messiness involved in proposing and implementing incremental multicountry crisis management responses on the fly has been an important destabilizing factor throughout the crisis. After diagnosing the situation, we consider reforms that might improve the resilience of the euro area to future fiscal shocks.

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.26.3.49

The European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Most studies of student performance that use the production function or input-output approach do not consider student attendance as an independent variable. Data from Baltimore public elementary schools indicate that student attendance is positively and significantly related to standardized achievement test performance. Consistent with other studies, the importance of the socioeconomic status of the students and the lack of a positive influence of school input measures such as the teacher/pupil ratio and expenditure per pupil are apparent.

Evidence of Student Attendance as an Independent Variable in Education Production Functions.

Implementing and interpreting event studies of regulatory changes

Studies of student achievement generally do not consider the effect of school size, or do so peripherally. Using the production function approach and data from Baltimore (Maryland) public elementary schools, school size is shown to have a negligible effect on the performance of these students on standardized achievement tests. Consistent with other studies, the importance of the socio-economic status of the students and the lack of a positive effect of school input measures such as the teacher/pupil ratio and expenditure per pupil is borne out in these results.

Testing for the Effect of School Size on Student Achievement within a School District

The study of the stock price reaction to an event is a standard tool in economics and finance The spate of regulatory changes in recent years provides ample opportunity for such studies However, event studies of regulatory changes present a number of challenges Analysts must carefully design and interpret tests of hypotheses regarding the effects of regulatory changes because of the nature of the regulatory process and financial markets I discuss the way to test for the impact of regulatory changes in an event study I also comment on what event studies can and cannot tell us about the effects of regulatory changes, and on ways to more effectively implement them

Implementing and Interpreting Event Studies of Regulatory Changes

The authors examine ex-dividend day share price behavior in light of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Data from 1982 through 1991 are examined. The evidence generally supports the traditional view that differential taxation does affect the valuation of dividends and capital gains rather than the tax irrelevance view that it does not. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.

Douglas J. Lamdin

Papers

Evidence of Student Attendance as an Independent Variable in Education Production Functions.

Implementing and interpreting event studies of regulatory changes

Testing for the Effect of School Size on Student Achievement within a School District

Implementing and Interpreting Event Studies of Regulatory Changes

Ex-dividend day share price behavior: Effects of the tax reform act of 1986