..., systematically positive or negative effect on grade progression and the probability of dropping out. The chapter describes an empirical analysis based on the educational production function approach that is widely used to identify the effects of family and school resources on educational achievement. It states...

... model is used to clarify the microeconomic foundations of labor pooling as a source of agglomeration economies and to motivate empirical analysis. The model is a version of the labor pooling model of Krugman which predicts that sectors whose establishments experience more idiosyncratic volatility...

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... through this blizzard of information. This chapter describes the strategy used to examine the data, an approach grounded in a body of theory developed in economics and political science. It begins by reviewing the relevant theory, and then highlights its implications for empirical analysis. After...

... 1.2 summarizes the analytical model that is the basis of the empirical tests in the chapter. Section 1.3 presents the results of the empirical analysis. Section 1.4 elaborates on the role played by the banking-sector weaknesses and the financial distress of over-leveraged firms in explaining...