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Order of play advantage in sequential tournaments : evidence from randomized settings in professional golf

Brady, Ryan R.; Insler, Michael A. - 2017

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U.S. Safety Net Programs and Early Life Skills Formation : Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

Bolbocean, Corneliu - 2018

A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...

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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Kimbrough, Erik O. - 2017

Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely …-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the positive effects …

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Peer Effects in Computer Assisted Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017

We conduct a large scale RCT to investigate peer effects in computer assisted learning (CAL). Identification of peer … which peer effects unambiguously help weak students catch up with the rest of the class without imposing any learning cost …

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Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption : Evidence from Movie Sales

Moretti, Enrico - 2008

social learning in which the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive from their peers. The … pieces of evidence are consistent with social learning. First, sales of movies with positive surprise and negative surprise …, social learning appears to be an important determinant of sales in the movie industry, accounting for 38% of sales for the …

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Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2012

asset, his peers may also want to purchase it, both because they learn from his choice ("social learning") and because his …

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The Cognitive Link between Geography and Development : Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania

Field, Erica; Robles, Omar; Torero, Maximo - 2021

and suggest a potentially important role of variation in rates of learning disability in explaining cross-country growth …

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Child Care in Poor Communities : Early Learning Effects of Type, Quality, and Stability

Loeb, Susanna; Fuller, Bruce; Kagan, Sharon Lynn; … - 2021

Young children in poor communities are spending more hours in non-parental care due to policy reforms and expansion of early childhood programs. Studies show positive effects of high-quality center-based care on children's cognitive growth. Yet we know little about the effects of center care...

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Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium : Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement

Conley, Timothy Guy - 2015

We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...

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Peer Effects in the Classroom : Learning from Gender and Race Variation

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021

Peer effects are potentially important for understanding the optimal organization of schools, jobs, and neighborhoods, but finding evidence is difficult because people are selected into peer groups based, in part, on their unobservable characteristics. I identify the effects of peers whom a...

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