Government activity and economic growth – one size fits All?

Government activity and economic growth : One size fits all ?

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic systems as predicted by an extended Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) approach. The empirical growth impact of...

One size fits all

Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft records from Swedish registers. The impact on student achievement caused by the position of teachers ...

International fetal growth standards: one size fits all.

One-Size-Fits-All Wireless Video

We present SoftCast, a new approach for wireless video that flips the conventional design; instead of requiring the source to pick an 802.11 bitrate and video resolution before transmission, it allows the receiver to decode a video whose bitrate and resolution are commensurate with the observed channel quality after reception. This approach has applications for multicast and mobile wireless rec...

Good Teaching : One size fits all ?

Across North America and increasingly the world, there is a move within education to adopt a constructivist view of learning and teaching. In part, the argument for this move is a reaction against teacher-centred instruction that has dominated much of education, particularly adult and higher education, for the past forty years or more. While I do not argue with the basic tenets of constructivis...