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The relationship between teachers' characteristics and their pupils' achievement has been the subject of many studies. Most of this research focuses on the impact of teacher salaries, experience, and measures of teachers' pre-service training such as educational background. The effect of...
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We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover … gender difference in learning (only) in the household …
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This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long-term performance. Using exceptional data from a large highly-selective state university, we relate school accountability pressure in high school to a student's university-level grades...
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We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...
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learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security … and learning productivities are far from perfectly correlated, with private institutions receiving relatively higher … rankings under earning measures than under learning measures; 2) earning measures are significantly more correlated with …
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Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely …-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the positive effects …
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We conduct a large scale RCT to investigate peer effects in computer assisted learning (CAL). Identification of peer … which peer effects unambiguously help weak students catch up with the rest of the class without imposing any learning cost …
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, endogenous learning here eliminates that effect …
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social learning in which the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive from their peers. The … pieces of evidence are consistent with social learning. First, sales of movies with positive surprise and negative surprise …, social learning appears to be an important determinant of sales in the movie industry, accounting for 38% of sales for the …
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represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …
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