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Technology and child development: Evidence from the one laptop per child program

Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement

Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001

We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …

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Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey

MacArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - 2009

Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...

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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries

Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011

changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …

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Hard evidence on soft skills

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2012

This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of cognitive ability like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...

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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2014

ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable … of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning …

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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …

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Comparing Students to Workers : The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Burks, Stephen V.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2004

To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...

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Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy

Nunnari, Salvatore; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2024

simple theoretical framework and an experiment to show that enhanced cognitive abilities may lead to better policy choices …

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