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Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...
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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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This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...
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learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed …
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, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes beyond the estimation of direct effects of textbooks on students' learning …
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Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...
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Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...
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/18% for Black girls), countering a prevailing narrative that teaching leaves one worse off financially relative to other …
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teaching future teammates. Participants perform a real-effort task and decide whether to work independently or join a two … of teaching. High ability workers are more willing to join teams in the absence of revenue sharing and less willing to … is driven by expected future financial gains from teaching rather than some variety of pro-social preferences. This …
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modern empirical agenda. This essay traces the divergent development of econometric teaching and empirical practice, arguing …
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