COMM 3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Electronic Voting, Editorial Cartoon

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMM 3601
• Professor: Nicholas Leshi

Document Summary

Improve competitiveness: democracy, higher levels of education are important for the transitions to, sustainability of, and quality of democracy, links to modernization theory, education as a prerequisite to democracy. Income: higher income leads to higher education and better health. Unconditional cash transfer (conditional means that the kids need to go to school to get money, unconditional means that if the family qualifies, they just get their money without any strings attached) Assumes that parents aren"t sending their kids to school because they could be working instead, so they pay the family to make up that difference and send the kid to school. Parents might not recognize the benefits of education. Implications for inequality: supply: education systems: skill development critical. Government intervention in terms of building schools and providing teachers. Supply side interventions help, but not enough. Help with enrollments, but not in the actual learning.