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We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …
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We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school … administrative and survey data before the pandemic, we find that both teachers and students in lower performing regions were using no …
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To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of questions across students … randomizing students to start with an easier or harder question makes a difference to overall assessment performance in … students' overall performance. …
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We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …
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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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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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Teleworking parents can better monitor and help their children with online learning. In this paper, I test whether … parents' teleworkability affected children's online learning during Covid school closures. I use panel data from Invalsi …, which includes the results of standardized tests given to all Italian students in grades 2 and 5 and parental …
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2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either … an online or in-person class. Final grades for online students dropped by 0.215 standard deviations; a result apparent in … both assignments and exams and largest for academically at-risk students. A post-course survey finds that online students …
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This study explores the preference for remote work by sending thousands of randomized messages to tutors advertising on an online platform across Greece. The messages requested either in-person or online tutoring. Requests for online lessons were roughly 50 percent more likely to receive a...
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Campus closures due to COVID19 created uneven student-level exposures to the challenges of home-based virtual learning …-course level using administrative records, we find that within-class peer support can offset learning challenges even in virtual …
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