Sentences with phrase «percentage points more»

As currently proposed, borrowers with less than 20 percent down will have to choose between higher fees and rates today — up to 3 percentage points more — or a 9 - 14 year delay while they save up the necessary down payment.

The Phoenix market, hard hit in the housing meltdown, is starting to sizzle with quarterly values increasing 3.8 percentage points more than the next highest MSA.

The price of FHA - financed homes rose about 3 percentage points more than prices for homes financed by conventional loans, the center said.

It had already charged to 17 percent, which is more than 5 percentage points more charge than the average of 11.43 percent and a whopping 11 percentage points more than the iPhone 6, which had crept up to just 6 percent of a full charge.

It was already up to 32 percent of a full charge — that's 8 percentage points more than the average of 24 percent.

Among people who have graduated from college, Democrats and Democratic - leaning independents are 43 percentage points more likely than Americans who lean Republican to say scientists agree on global warming.

However, if you're waiting a few years before returning for graduate school, you could see yourself paying a few percentage points more in interest.

Still, it is worth noting that, over the past 15 years, the advisers making it onto each year's honor roll on average over the subsequent 12 months went on to make 1.2 percentage points more a year than those who didn't, while nevertheless incurring 25 % less risk, as measured by volatility of returns.

I'm 98.40 % invested in this account, 48.28 percentage points more than the end of May as I finally added more exposure and removed a hedge.

A diversified portfolio of emerging market bonds is now yielding 2.5 percentage points more than a portfolio of Canadian bonds (or two percentage points more than U.S. bonds).

In the past decade, both funds score top rankings, with Growth gaining 10.9 % annualized, or an average 3.3 percentage points more per year than the S&P 500, and Income earning 11.2 % annualized, or an average 3.6 points a year better than the index.

If you have a credit score of 550, you could be charged interest rates approximately five percentage points more than one with 750.

In many cases, you'll pay an interest rate that is 10 to 15 percentage points more than the rate you pay on purchases.»

«This calculation would suggest that long - run equity returns will be about 7 % — five percentage points more than the safest bonds.»

The economists found that while both sexes reducednet returns through trading, men did so by 0.94 percentage points more per year.

INFLATION - INDEXED TREASURY bonds, formally known as Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS, were first sold in January 1997, with the 10 - year note initially yielding 3.45 percentage points more than inflation.

To compensate for the risk of defaults, junk bonds have, on average, yielded some 6 percentage points more than comparable Treasury bonds.

You pay a higher rate of interest than you would for a conventional mortgage: currently 4.99 % for a variable rate or a six - month term, which is about 1.5 percentage points more than you'd pay for a HELOC, McLister says.

If the average long - term return for stocks is 8.5 %, let's look at years where returns were a full 10 percentage points more or less than that.

And total share price performance through the three - year anniversary of the hybrid boards averaged 21.5 percent, almost 18 percentage points more than their peers.

So we look for a balance: highest marks went to cities that are growing at around 7.5 % annually, two percentage points more than the national average.

Let's say the risk - free rate of return is 1 %, the market itself is expected to return 4 percentage points more than the risk - free rate (so the market's risk premium is 4 %), and a stock has a beta of 1.5, which makes it more risky than the market.

The government alleges the bank wrongly offered the two - tier rates through auto dealerships, charging one to two interest percentage points more on loans for unmarried couples.

was 13 percentage points more likely to achieve five GCSEs graded A * - C including mathematics and English

Economists from MIT and Harvard, among other co-authors, found in one paper that voucher winners «were about 10 percentage points more likely than (lottery) losers to have completed eighth grade, primarily because they repeated fewer grades,» and that «on average, lottery winners scored about 0.2 standard deviations higher than losers.»

As a share of total expenditures, benefits are also increasing; they now eat up six percentage points more than in 2001.

Children conceived to mothers living within 2 miles of a Superfund site before it was cleaned are 7.4 percentage points more likely to repeat a grade, have 0.06 of a standard deviation lower test scores, and are 6.6 percentage points more likely to be suspended from school than their siblings who were conceived after the site was cleaned.

In addition to being 21 percentage points more likely to graduate high school, students from low - income families scored slightly higher on standardized tests.

Public charter schools in Indiana served a higher percentage of students in special populations when compared with traditional public schools in 2012 — 13 (14 percentage points more).

But if they were offered the course in one of their honors classes, they were 25 percentage points more likely to sign up when the decision was public.

In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than a comparison set of students attending traditional public high schools.

The researchers also found that 10th - grade pathway students in four of seven districts are six to 17 percentage points more likely than similar peers to be on track to complete the a-g courses required for admission to California's public universities.

On this year's statewide achievement test, students at mayor - sponsored charter schools were 11 percentage points more likely to achieve proficiency in English, and 10 points more likely to achieve proficiency in math, than were students of local public schools, according to an analysis by the Indianapolis Mayor's Office of Education.

Compared to their nonunion counterparts, members of teachers» unions are 16 percentage points more likely to have advanced degrees — which increase the quality and skills of the employee.

We found that those who left teaching (excluding retirees) were ten percentage points more likely to get a job in the wider London education sector compared to the rest of England, in particular in non-teaching roles, at private schools and as teaching assistants.

Eighth graders living in states with a minimum - competency exam were 2 to 4 percentage points more likely to be attending college six years later than were comparable students from states without such exams.

Female teachers are about 8percentage points more likely to attend church frequently than female nonteachers, and male teachers are 16 percentage points more likely to attend church frequently than male nonteachers (see Figure 3).

Highly educated Americans are about 24 percentage points more likely than their less educated counterparts to support the free - speech rights of an atheist.

Schools with 26 percentage points more poor students received ratings that were one - quarter of a letter grade lower.

As compared to parents of children in private schools, charter parents are 14 percentage points more likely to say they have communicated with school officials about their children's schoolwork or homework.

Across five key characteristics — teacher quality, discipline, expectations for achievement, safety, and instruction in character and values — charter parents are on average 13 percentage points more satisfied than district parents.

Noble students were 15 percentage points more likely to attend a four - year school and 14 percentage points more likely to attend a college where the median two - subject SAT score was above 1000 — increases of 50 and 78 percent, respectively.

In particular, schools with 25 percentage points more African American students received ratings that were 15 percent of a letter grade lower, while schools with 24 percentage points more Hispanic students received ratings that were 16 percent of a letter grade lower.

Private - school parents are on average 12 percentage points more satisfied than charter - school parents across the same five characteristics.

Of four indicators of social disruption — students using drugs, students destroying property, fighting, and missing classes — district parents are on average 8 percentage points more likely than charter parents to perceive a problem as serious or very serious.

All else being equal, a typical individual who attended the school with the largest percentage of students identifying voting as a component of good citizenship was 14 percentage points more likely to vote than the person who attended schools with the lowest percentage of students identifying voting as a civic duty.

That year, the annual Education Next poll found that being told President Obama supported charter schools had the effect of making respondents 11 percentage points more likely to endorse charter schooling.

Looking at the data across the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, we find that teachers are about 9 to 11 percentage points more likely than other Americans as a whole to pray one or more times per day.

Figure 2 also shows that double - dosed students were 8.6 percentage points more likely to enroll in college within five years of starting high school, a nearly 30 percent increase over the base college enrollment rate of 29 percent.

A study of 639 charter school applications in four states found that those identifying an external funding source were 7 percentage points more likely to be approved than those that did not.