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Lu, Fangwen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Health and education are two important issues in developing economies. Field and natural experiments provided me with great opportunities for identifying the effects of health insurance and incentive on doctors' prescribing behaviors and the peer influences among students. The first chapter examines whether doctors write more expensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Incentives
Shuh, John – This Magazine, 1978
In this review of Gamberg's book, the differences in educational philosophy between China and Canada are brought out, emphasizing the ways in which inculcation of competitiveness and individualism in Canada promotes capitalism while inculcation of cooperation in China promotes a different set of values. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Chinese Culture, Communism, Educational Experiments
Barendsen, Robert D. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This study of experiments with a new type of educational institution in Communist China is based upon an analysis of materials from Chinese Communist newspapers and periodicals. Reliance upon a discriminating use of such materials is necessitated by the lack of impartial first hand evaluations of these new institutions by qualified outside…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Experiments