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interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both …
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ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …
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This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between...
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; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …
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markets with several public and private schools are now pervasive in low- and middle-income countries, prudent policy requires …
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tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …
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incentives can be used to promote healthier sleep habits. To this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students …
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-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked …
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June 2012, DACA-eligible immigrants were less likely to live with their parents or in multigenerational households (-12 … effects of DACA on income and employment outcomes. Lower rental costs (-3%) may have facilitated this transition into …
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We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child's birth weight, even after accounting for all genetic and...
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