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Incentives and services for college achievement: evidence from a randomized trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2007

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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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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How do shocks to non-cognitive skills affect test scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - 2009

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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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

Hartog, Joop; Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, C. Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...

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Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity : Time Preference or Learning Ability?

Munasinghe, Lalith; Sicherman, Nachum - 2004

inherently unobservable sources of heterogeneity – learning ability and workers? inter-temporal preferences (discounting) – both …

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Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2006

Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...

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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008

between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the overall achievement. A cooperative learning approach may instead emerge when … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …

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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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Endogenous indoctrination: occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters. …

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