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E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance

Amer-Mestre, Josep; Ayarza-Astigarraga, Alaitz; Lopes, … - 2021

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...

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The role of mothers and fathers in providing skills: Evidence from parental deaths

Adda, Jérôme; Björklund, Anders; Holmlund, Helena - 2011

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential endogeneity...

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What more than parental income? An exploration of what Swedish siblings get from their parents

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Lena; Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2008

, indicators of parents' patience, i.e., propensity to plan ahead and willingness to postpone benefits to the future, are …

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Effects of parental background on other-regarding preferences in children

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2011

binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents … characteristics, and is attenuated for smarter children. The results suggest that less educated parents are either less efficient to …

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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling

Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...

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E-Learning at Universities: Does Starting with Difficult Questions Affect Student Performance?

Galkiewicz, Agata; Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - 2024

To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of questions across students. However, little is known about the potential unintended side effects of question order. This paper examines whether randomizing students to start with an easier or harder question...

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Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries

Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...

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When the early bird catches the worm: The impact of training in retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? : Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...

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Summer Learning and the Effect of Schooling: Evidence from Sweden

Lindahl, Mikael - 2001

are lost when pupils are not in school, pupils with non-Swedish parents learn relatively more during the school year, and … learning is unrelated to pupils? parents? socioeconomic level during both the summer and the school year. … compensates for disadvantageous social backgrounds. Using a new sample of Swedish sixth grade pupils, results are that math skills …

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