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Pop-Eleches, Cristian; Urquiola, Miguel – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Experiments
Burke, John Charles – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
This paper reviews research on disturbances of children with developmental delays and handicaps in responding to complex stimuli, suggesting that such disturbances may deleteriously influence behavioral/neurophysiological development. Intervention programs for teaching children with autism a generalized set to use in responding to complex…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Development, Children, Difficulty Level