China’s One Child Policy (OCP), introduced in 1979, changed fundamentally the nature of both existing and anticipated marriage arrangements and influenced family formation decisions in many dimensions, especially with respect to the number of and investment in children. The policy coincided with the Economic Reforms of 1979 and the trend toward greater urbanization, all of which may have influe...

Medical doctors constitute a profession which embraces trust from and accountability to society. This responsibility extends to all medical educational institutions. Social accountability of medical education means a willingness and ability to adjust to the needs of patients and health care systems both nationally and globally. But it also implies a responsibility to contribute to the developme...

While educational reforms in introductory physics are becoming more widespread, how these reforms are implemented is less well understood. This paper examines the variation in faculty practices surrounding the implementation of educational reform in introductory physics courses. Through observations of classroom practice, we find that professors’ actual practices differ strikingly. We present a...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of the Calman reforms of higher specialist training on trainee satisfaction. DESIGN Questionnaire surveys using portable electronic survey units, two years apart. SETTING Postgraduate, teaching, district general, and community NHS trusts in North Thames. North Thames deanery includes London north of the Thames, Essex, and Hertfordshire. PARTICIPANTS Train...

This paper investigates the role of recent pension reforms for the development of the social security system and economic growth in Austria. We use a computable general equilibrium model that is built up of overlapping generations that differ by their household structure, longevity, educational attainment, and capital accumulation. Each household optimally decides over its consumption paths, wo...

This paper provides an overview of tracking in Israeli upper secondary education and assesses its effect on the attainment higher degrees earnings. Since early 1970’s, system has gone through three major reforms that profoundly transformed sorting mechanisms education. All aimed at reducing social inequality educational structural changes expanded learning opportunities replaced rigid top-down ...

The aim of the article is to use survey evidence school choice and educational attitudes in Sweden explore how spatial polarization liberal reforms have affected way parents, p...