This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effect of infrastructure on industry-level productivity and international specialization, as suggested by Clarida and Findlay's (1992) model. Attempting to control for simultaneity with a three-stage least squares estimation strategy, it is found that public infrastructure helps to explain patterns of comparative advantage...
Alma Mater Composed to Capture the Spirit of Innovative School NEW YORK, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Cristo Rey New York High School CRNYHS will hold its inaugural commencement exercise on June 12, 2008. Forty students from low-income families successfully completed the school's college preparatory coursework while financing...
Well, shut my mouth and knock me over with a feather: WHYY premieres a whole new home-grown weekly series tonight at 9. On Canvas is just the kind of thing the big public station in the nation's fourth-largest TV market should be doing: a showcase of the variety of performing...
So they may not have gotten into their dream schools, but most high school seniors have already decided where they will go to college next fall. But wait, what's that sound? It could be Harvard knocking. There is still hope for a few hundred in the class of...
Voluntary associations. (reprint, 1969) Ed. by J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman. Transaction Publishers 2007 291 pages $29.95 Paperback HM711 Pennock taught political science at Swarthmore College for 25-plus years; Chapman is professor...
Coercion. (reprint, 1972) Ed. by J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman. AldineTransaction 2007 328 pages $32.95 Paperback HM1251 This is a paperbound reprint of a 1972 book. Pennock (political science, Swarthmore College) and...
The top players from the region's small colleges will be honored by the Herb Good Basketball Club on Monday. Nick Shattuck of Ursinus College yesterday was named the Philadelphia-area player of the year. He and seven others will be honored as the all-Philadelphia-area team. They are: Ed Braswell of Cheyney;...
FROM MEDIA STORIES TO conversations at cocktail parties, news has spread of the difficult situation facing private higher education and the decisions by officials at institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, and Swarthmore College (Pa.) to give away undergraduate educations to middle- and upper-middle-class families--essentially making the bachelor's degree free. Institutions...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] George R. Abbe was born in 1943 in Media, Pennsylvania, a small town a few miles west of Philadelphia, but grew up in Swarthmore, PA where he graduated from high school. He received a B.S. in biology from Ursinus College in 1965 and a M. Sc....
Michelle Bauer, University of the Sciences, Mid Atlantic Rifle Conference all-conference team. Jennie Lewis, Swarthmore, Division III swimming all-American. Anne Miller, Swarthmore, Division III swimming all-American. Sean Quigley, La Salle, U.S. Track, Field and Cross-Country Coaches' Association Division I indoor track all-American. Weekly Awards Week of March 10. Colin Ambler,...
IN the United States, almost everything is taxed. Sales taxes apply to the things we buy, property taxes apply to the things we own, and income taxes apply to checks we receive. Higher education is one of the few areas exempt from this ubiquitous taxation. The earnings of colleges and...
PHILADELPHIA -- In honor of Settlement Music School's Centennial and as a way to strengthen its longtime commitment to the study and performance of contemporary music, Settlement has commissioned three world premieres by local composers to be performed throughout 2008. The first commission, by local composer and Swarthmore college professor...
PABLO REID MITCHELL Title: Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, Comparative American Studies Program, Oberlin College Education: Ph.D., History, University of Michigan; M.A., History, University of New Mexico; B.A., History, Swarthmore College Age: 38 It's no wonder that Dr. Pablo Mitchell...
SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- When Kara Peterman was a high school student interested in engineering, she toured a high-powered engineering university in the Northeast that proudly displayed photos of its graduates. She counted three women in one picture. "I wasn't really encouraged," she recalled. ...
When it comes to paying for college, cash-strapped families have had a few good tidings of late. A string of elite, private colleges have announced major boosts in financial aid. Duke kicked things off two weeks ago with a plan to spend an extra $13 million on...
When it comes to paying for college, cash-strapped families have had a few good tidings of late. A string of elite, private colleges have announced major boosts in financial aid. Duke kicked things off recently with a plan to spend an extra $13million on aid by...
When it comes to paying for college, cash-strapped families have had a few good tidings of late. A string of elite, private colleges have announced major boosts in financial aid. Duke kicked things off recently with a plan to spend an extra $13million on aid by...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Tony Pals of National Association of IndependentColleges and Universities, office: +1-202-739-0474, cell: +1-202-288-9333, tony@naicu.edu WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In this season ofgiving, students and families are receiving welcome news fromprivate colleges across the nation, which could save them thousandsof dollars a year in college...
Swarthmore College will replace all student loans with scholarships in financial aid awards beginning next fall, the dean of admissions said yesterday. Swarthmore's move will put the elite liberal arts college in Delaware County in a league with Harvard University, Princeton and a handful of other colleges and universities that...
Ernie Prudente lived his life by a simple game plan. "My father said, 'Always do something you like, so you never have to go to work,' " he recalled yesterday. "I coached for, like, 45 years. And every year, you get older. But new kids keep coming in, and that...
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