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Florida drives the national auto market
The Sunshine State represents the nation's second-largest car market. Changes in the marketplace - from sagging fleet sales to strong import performance - reverberate from Florida to Detroit and beyond.
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Florida and Georgia find jackpots with lotteries
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Unintended consequences of school accountability policies: evidence from Florida and implications for New York
Over the past two decades, state and federal education policies have tried to hold schools more accountable for educating students by tying rewards and sanctions to test scores and other measurable outcomes. A common criticism of these policies is that they may induce schools to ?game the system? along with?or instead of?making genuine educational improvements. One such strategic response may be to classify low-performing students into categories that are excluded from grade computation in an effort to artificially inflate scores. This article analyzes school responses to an influential ...
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Florida: a good year, but not an easy one
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Housing demand and community choice: an empirical analysis
Housing demand reflects the household's simultaneous choice of neighborhood, whether to own or rent the dwelling, and the quantity of housing services demanded. Existing literature emphasizes the final two factors, but overlooks the choice of community. This paper develops an econometric model that incorporates all three components, and then estimates this model using a sample of households in Tampa, Florida. Incorporating community choice increases the price elasticity of demand and reduces the differential between white and comparable nonwhite households. The results are robust to the ...
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Sunshine state shines as clouds form in U.S. economy
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Overview: long-term prospects for the Southeastern states
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This recession finally proves that Florida is not immune