Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation*

The Persistence of School - Level Value - Added

Assumptions of Value‐added Models for Estimating School Effects

The work reported here was supported by funds from the William T. Grant Foundation (Reardon) and the Spencer Foundation (Raudenbush) for the project " Improving Research on Instruction: Models, Designs, and Analytic Methods. " We thank Derek Neal for his thoughtful discussion of earlier stages of this work. All errors remain our own.

value added tax and tax evasion

The phenomenon of tax evasion has been always one of the most major issues among economists due to it's devastating effects on the economy and the process of economic development. Many scholars have always sought to provide solutions to reduce and limit tax evasion. The introduction of the VAT system can be seen as a milestone in the area of economic transparency and tax evasion, which refers t...

The Added Value of Value Added Tax

Raising domestic tax revenues is a priority for most sub-Saharan African countries. But the tax bases in most African countries are undermined by widespread tax avoidance and evasion. A new study from CMI supports the claim that improved knowledge about the tax system makes a difference in people’s willingness to pay tax. The study shows that exposure to Value-AddedTax (VAT) makes people take a...

Policy options for value added to different levels of production

This paper presents an analytic procedure for the value added to different production levels with different policy options. The approach is stochastic and thus provides a framework for informed decision-making on productivity growth under uncertainty conditions. The model was applied to data collected from a firm and re-sults recommend that the firm should redevelop if in diversification and sy...