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School's Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using "Low-Tech" in a Pandemic

Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Matsheng, Moitshepi - 2020

Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when schools close. We run a randomized trial of low-technology...

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School's out: experimental evidence on limiting learning loss using "low-tech" in a pandemic

Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Matsheng, Moitshepi - 2020

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Intergenerational Residence Patterns and COVID-19 Fatalities in the EU and the US

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard, Shoshana - 2020

We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for the 27 countries in the European Union, the UK, and all US...

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Are COVID Fatalities in the US Higher Than in the EU, and If So, Why?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard, Shoshana - 2020

The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...

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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020

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Intergenerational residence patterns and COVID-19 fatalities in the EU and the US

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020

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Education policies and migration across European countries

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii … construct a novel data base that includes information on education reforms for thirty-one countries spanning four decades … education reduces the number of emigrants by almost 10%. Increasing the length of compulsory education shifts educational …

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Learning-adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : defining a new macro measure of education : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report

Filmer, Deon; Rogers, Halsey; Angrist, Noam; Sabarwal, … - 2018

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …

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Skill specific rather than general education : a reason for US-Europe growth differences?

Krueger, Dirk; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2002

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Skills-specific rather than general education : a reason for slow European growth?

Krueger, Dirk (contributor); Kumar, Krishna B. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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