Sentences with phrase «significant effect of choice»

The most commonly cited school choice review, by economists Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow, declares that it will focus on the evidence from existing experimental studies but then leaves out four such studies (three of which reported positive choice effects) and includes one study that was non-experimental (and found no significant effect of choice).

Not exact matches

A significant amount of research has explored the paralyzing effect of too many choices.

The Milwaukee school choice program and the response of Milwaukee Public Schools are especially significant in light of Frederick M. Hess's study of the effects of competition on large urban school districts.

Despite the vast majority of randomized control trials (RCTs) of private school choice showing significant, positive test score effects for at least some subgroups of students, some of those gains have been modest and other effects have been null for at least some subgroups.

Using Tax Lots to Your Advantage Your choice of cost basis method can have a significant effect on the computation of capital gains and losses when you sell shares.

Your choices in Chrono Trigger amounted to choosing party combination, which had a significant effect on how you played (because of the combos), and choosing between accessories / the occasional other equipment slot.

The «other papers» concerned were designed specifically to test the robustness of Mann's results to methodological and data choices and they both found that the choice of PCA selection and other criticisms have no significant effect on the conclusions of the MBH studies.

As the distribution obtained by combining all independent evidence is narrower than any of the evidence separately, the choice of prior will have a lesser influence on the outcome, but it may still have a significant effect.

However, the relation is complex: Only when prosumers have the choice between self - consumption and sale of the surplus electricity production to the grid we observe a statistically significant effect on consumption behavior.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

A few pounds here and there can have a significant effect on our choice of carrier.