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computers. Thus, the mere availability of computers at home seems to distract students from effective learning. But measures of …
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Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...
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opening K-12 schools with in-person learning is associated with a 5 (SE = 2) percentage points increase in the growth rate of …
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Online delivery of higher education has taken center stage but is fraught with issues of student self-organization. We conducted an RCT to study the effects of remote peer mentoring at a German university that switched to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mentors and mentees met...
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We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources …-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled relative to baseline. Areas of the country with higher income, better internet … lost school-based learning time. Accounting for such differences and promoting more equitable access to online learning …
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Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing formal...
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We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning … relative gain was much greater for academically-weaker students because their rate of learning in the control group was close … to zero. We show that the program was able to effectively cater to the very wide variation in student learning levels …
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Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as text or video messages, provide different levels...
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reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …
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We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical … improvements from learning are faster where market signals are noisier. …
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