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Learning Hope and Optimism : Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development

Fletcher, Jason - 2018

This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of maltreatment by adults, both for the adolescent and his/her classmates. While all types of...

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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Fischer, Mira - 2018

Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...

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Approaches to Learn About Employer Learning

Ablay, Mahmut; Lange, Fabian - 2022

The empirical literature on employer learning assumes that employers learn about unobserved ability differences across …

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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Marconi, Gabriele - 2015

We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...

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Rank Incentives and Social Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Dobrescu, Loretti Isabella - 2019

all quantiles and extend beyond the time of the intervention. The mechanism behind these findings involves social learning …

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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation

Graham, Liam - 2011

The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...

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Labor Turnover Costs, Workers' Heterogeneity, and Optimal Monetary Policy

Faia, Ester - 2009

We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are set according to a right to manage bargaining where the firms' counterpart is given by currently employed workers. Our model captures well the salient features of European labor...

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Lowering Barriers to Remote Education : Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning

Beam, Emily; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022

educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and one-on-one phone learning support. We find that offering an … acting as a signal or nudge. These behavioral changes result in lasting learning gains concentrated among richer households … usage of the targeted educational service limits parental behavioral responses. This implies that learning gains in these …

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Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten

Araujo, Maria Caridad - 2016

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...

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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information

Singh, Prakarsh - 2016

children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food …

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