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  • Principles of Financial Regulation

    by John Armour, Dan Awrey, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Colin Mayer, Jennifer Payne ...
    The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation of financial institutions and markets, and prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial regulation. As the financial system has become ever-more complex and interconnected, the pace of evolution continues to accelerate. It is now clear that regulation must focus on the financial system as a whole, but ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law

    A Comparative and Functional Approach

    by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda, Mariana Pargendler, Wolf-Georg Ringe, Edward Rock ...
    This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance practices that have taken place since the previous edition. These include numerous regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the changing landscape of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law

    Reconsidering School Finance, Policies, and Resources in US Education Policy

    by David J. Armor, John R. Munich, Aron Malatinszky ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    This book offers a novel and up-to-date exploration of the common belief that increasing conventional school resources will increase academic achievement and help close gaps between various advantaged and disadvantaged students. Taking the scholarship around this question, such as James S. Coleman’s 1965 report on the Equality of Educational Opportunity, as a starting point, it brings in an ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • International Differences in Well-Being

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    This book brings together the best of current global research on the measurement and understanding of international differences in well-being ... Read more

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  • Methods Matter

    Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research

    by Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett ...
    Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, knowledge about what ... Read more

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  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Stephen J. Machin, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

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  • The Economic Psychology of Tax Behaviour

    by Erich Kirchler ...
    Tax evasion is a complex phenomenon which is influenced not just by economic motives but by psychological factors as well. Economic-psychological research focuses on individual and social representations of taxation as well as decision-making. In this 2007 book, Erich Kirchler assembles research on tax compliance, with a focus on tax evasion, and integrates the findings into a model based on the ... Read more

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  • Special Education: What Every Parent and Lawyer Needs to Know

    by Matthew Famiglietti ...
    The Individualized Education Program (IEP), Mediation, Due Process, Fees and Expenses, and Other Remedies are covered in lay terms, making it easy for parents to understand what is happening, but there is sufficient detail and case law to make this an excellent resource for practicing attorneys.This book gives a brief summary of the history of special education law, which helps the reader ... Read more

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  • Measuring Up

    What Educational Testing Really Tells Us

    by Daniel Koretz ...
    How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated.Inspired by a ... Read more

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  • Understanding and Applying Research Design

    by Martin Lee Abbott, Jennifer McKinney ...
    A fresh approach to bridging research design with statistical analysisWhile good social science requires both research design and statistical analysis, most books treat these two areas separately. Understanding and Applying Research Design introduces an accessible approach to integrating design and statistics, focusing on the processes of posing, testing, and interpreting research questions in the ... Read more

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  • Real Data

    A Statistics Workbook Based on Empirical Data

    by Zealure Holcomb ...
    • In Real Data, students predict the answers to interesting questions. Then they analyze data supplied by leading researchers to see if there is empirical support for their predictions.• Students get practice in computing all the major statistics usually covered in an introductory statistics course.• Because each of the 35 exercises in Part A deals with only a limited number of statistics, the ... Read more

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