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In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close agap in the literature by assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy atthe beginning of the tournament...
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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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in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on … primary and secondary school children in slum and rural households in Bangladesh, we examine how learning time at home during … use data shows only a modest return to technology in terms of boosting learning time at home. Learning-grade gradient is …
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learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of …
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School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning …. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been heterogeneous over countries, within countries and between school … levels.As a consequence, most of the burden of children's learning fell on their parents, with likely uneven results …
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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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school quality is provided to households and schools. There are no significant improvements in the learning outcomes of … absenteeism but saw no improvements in learning outcomes possibly because of constrained school choice set. Overall, our results … suggest that information on the relative quality of schools can be a cheap and effective tool for improving learning outcomes …
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Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely … peer-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the …
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Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …
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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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