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How Does the Entry of a New School in a Closed-Market System Affect School Quality within the Market?
No full textM.P.P.Since the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals, greater emphasis has been put on the need for accurate measurement of quality educational outcomes, over existing enrollment and attendance statistics. This indicates that governments around the world, especially in developing countries, have prioritize quality over quantity. While this is a good focus, it presents a challenge of inequity in the distribution of quality education. Oftentimes, children from low-income families and rural populations receive less than adequate educational services. This study examines if existing market responses to these unmet needs, such as the rise in the number of low-cost private schools, and the establishment of new public schools in rural areas, may be conduits to increasing school quality in these closed-market systems. Using data from rural Punjab in Pakistan, this study examines teacher and student test score results over a span of 5 survey rounds, to determine if villages with one or more new schools, in a given year, experience positive effects on teaching and learning outcomes
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Influencing Minds, Influencing Tomorrow's Lone Wolf: A Rhetorical Analysis of Ingroup and Outgroup Construction in Selected Accelerationist Publications
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The Relationship Between Outstanding Student Loan Debt and Homeownership Among Americans in Their Thirties
No full textM.P.P.Homeownership rates have remained under 70 percent in recent years, and there are significant gaps in homeownership with respect to age, race, and income. At the same time, student loan debt has increased, especially among young adults. This increasing debt burden may impact the ability or willingness of individuals to take out a mortgage and purchase a home. Previous studies offer mixed results on the relationship between student loan debt and homeownership; however, most of this research focuses on the amount of debt held. Studies rarely account for the “extensive margin” of debt holding – the question of whether having any student debt is related to the probability of owning a home. The bulk of this research also focuses on adults in their twenties, rather than focusing on the relationship between debt holding and homeownership among the age group that is most likely to be considering whether to purchase a home at the same time that student debt may still be outstanding. I build on the existing literature by using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances to study the effect of the extensive margin of student loan debt on homeownership among individuals in their thirties who have at least some college education. I find a modestly negative but insignificant relationship between this measure of debt and homeownership among all individuals in their thirties, although that negative relationship is somewhat more precisely estimated among large households. These findings contrast with those of much of the existing literature but provide opportunities for future research
The Effect of Cell Phone Use on State Fragility in Southeast Asia
No full textM.P.P.Cellphone use has become an affordable way for individuals to communicate with their communities and access media. This technological development has improved access to
resources for low- and middle-income Southeast Asia countries. Even though cellphones have
increased capacity, many in this region are threatened by political instability, weak governance,
and economic uncertainty. This thesis examines the relationship between cellphone use and state
fragility in Southeast Asia between the years 2013 and 2021. We find that there is a statistically
significant negative relationship between cellphone use and total state fragility. Our empirical
results show that higher cellphone plan subscriptions are associated with a lower fragile state
index score. Finally, this thesis finds an inconclusive association between social media with state
fragility and internet use with state fragility, which could potentially suggest that increased
access to social media and the internet may not necessarily result in durable free governance in
Southeast Asia
TLISI 2023: Into the Multiverse: Speculative Play Practice for the Future(s) of Higher Education
No full textIn this session, workshop participants will learn how to apply speculative design principles to imagining anti-racist learning environments. After introducing participants to speculative design and anti-racism frameworks, we will ask workshop participants to imagine a higher education learning experience that is set in scenarios pulled from media and literature.
In a scene from Wakanda Forever (Black Panther II), princess Shuri and Okoye describe MIT as one of the little Wakandian village schools. We are inspired by this claim and think it will be interesting to speculate about what the higher education experience in Wakanda looks like. The idea of Wakanda is a manifestation of Afro-futurism - a science fiction genre that centers Black history and culture. Afro-futurism is also a tool that is used to complicate realities and imagine futures where people of color (specifically, black people) are liberated and thriving. In this light, we imagine how a Wakandan higher education institution would prioritize anti-racist practices and inclusive teaching, alongside other worlds drawn from media and literature. We would like to explore this imagining with educators and students through a speculative design workshop.
In small groups, participants will each be presented with a prompt. Scenarios from media and literature listed below will function as the spaces to locate their speculative prompt:
Star Wars - The future of the resistance / Resistance U
Jetsons - Family and lifelong learning
Star Trek - Decolonizing the institution
Wakanda - Nation-state level education policy
Sultana’s Dream - Speculative futures through a feminist lens
Each group will work on developing a vision board for a higher education institution in response to their speculative prompt. Afterward, they will share their work and learnings with the larger group.
By the end of the session, we hope that participants are inspired to reimagine their relationship with reality and to apply this practice to their work
The Effect of Carbon Pricing Policies on Unemployment
No full textM.P.P.The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between carbon pricing policies, specifically carbon tax policy and the emission trading system (ETS), and unemployment rates in 33 countries that have implemented these policies between 1995 and 2021. To achieve this objective, a two-way fixed effect regression model is employed. The findings indicate that countries that have implemented a carbon tax policy tend to have higher unemployment rates than those that have not. However, the ETS policy does not exhibit a statistically significant impact on the unemployment rate across the 33 countries under consideration. The empirical evidence suggests that the ETS initiative can effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions while not adversely affecting the labor market. Furthermore, it is crucial for international organizations and developed countries to assist developing countries in achieving a balance between economic development and environmental protection
Impact of Urban and Rural Health Insurance System Integration on Health Status and Longevity of the Elderly: Research Based on CHARLS Data
No full textM.P.P.The urban-rural health insurance integration policy was officially introduced by the Chinese government in 2016. This paper examines the effect of the policy on the health of elderly individuals living in rural areas, using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. The results indicate that the policy’s impact on the health of rural elderly individuals is not statistically significant, as shown by the difference in difference model used in this study. Since the policy has been in effect for less than seven years, and given the differences in medical resources and economic development among China's provinces, there are still further refinement needed to match the current national context and significant inequities in the distribution of medical resources between urban and rural areas in China that must be addressed
Gender in the Jasmine Revolution: State versus Female Protester's Conceptions of the Idealized Woman
No full textThe Tunisian Arab Spring saw high rates of female participation in the protests, which was taken by many as a result of the high level of gender equality in the country, relative to the rest of the Middle East and North Africa region. Despite women’s intense participation in the uprisings, scholarship has largely focused on the democratic transition of the Jasmine Revolution and not the locations and motivations of female protesters. This paper investigates the ways women’s participation in the Jasmine Revolution created a new construction of the idealized woman that rebelled against and continued aspects of the Tunisian government’s idealized woman through close inspection of existing gender scholarship, government documents that regulate and construct gender norms, and discourse from the protesters themselves. These documents reveal that the differences in the gender performances of the two idealized women stem from differing reasons for their constructions: the government from the need for economic reform and the female protesters for democratic freedoms and true economic liberation