Sentences with phrase «modest research evidence»

Based on my analysis of public opinion, there is broad public support for four policies, all of which also have at least modest research evidence to support them.

Not exact matches

While no clear evidence supports assertions that immigration reduces average earnings, available research suggests immigration may place modest downward pressure on wages for the lowest paid.

The research evidence also indicates that certain forms of distributed leadership have a modest but significant indirect effect on student achievement (Leithwood & Mascall, 2008:546).

W. Steven Barnet, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers, writing in IdeaLab, concludes that, after «weighing all of the evidence and not just that cited by partisans on one side or the other, the most accurate conclusion is that Head Start produces modest benefits including some long - term gains for children.»

Figlio's research found evidence for that idea: modest test - score increases at public schools facing the most intense competition.

However, the investment research literature does provide some modest evidence that substantially inferior past mutual fund performance is more likely to lead to inferior mutual fund returns in the future.

This process is referred to as «intergenerational transmission of parenting»; research evidence suggesting there is significant, though modest, continuity in parenting across generations (Belsky, Conger & Capaldi, 2009).