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Federal Policy and Latinos in Higher Education
Describes federal legislation and programs that support higher education and assesses Latino participation in these programs. Provides a statistical review of Latino achievement in higher education, including college enrollment and completion rates
A discriminant rule under transformation
We present a new rule for discriminating among continuous populations which are not multivariate normal. The basic idea is to construct the sample maximum likelihood discriminant rule after transforming the data by a suitable multivariate transformation to normalit
Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomised experiment to evaluate PROGRESA
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico. For such a purpose we use an evaluation sample that includes a number of villages where the program was not implemented for evaluation purposes. We estimate a structural model of education choices and argue that without such a framework it is impossible to evaluate the effect of the program and, especially, possible changes to its structure. We also argue that the randomized component of the data allows us to identify a more flexible model that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children, especially after primary school. We also find that an approximately revenue neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the former
Recursion relations for multi-gluon off-shell amplitudes on the light-front and Wilson lines
We analyze the off-shell scattering amplitudes in the framework of the
light-front perturbation theory. It is shown that the previously derived
recursion relation between tree level off-shell amplitudes in this formalism
actually resums whole classes of graphs into a Wilson line. More precisely, we
establish a correspondence between the light-front methods for the computation
of the off-shell amplitudes and the approach which makes use of the matrix
elements of straight infinite Wilson lines, which are manifestly gauge
invariant objects. Furthermore, since it is needed to explicitly verify the
gauge invariance of light-front amplitudes, it is demonstrated that the Ward
identities in this framework need additional instantaneous terms in the
light-front graphs.Comment: 26 pages, a few figure
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