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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 1, pp. 59-96
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430158
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023424
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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring : biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted?
Baert, Stijn - 2015
unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312754
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STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees
Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334445
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Gender-Neutral Language and Gender Disparities
Cohen, Alma; Karelitz, Tzur; Kricheli-Katz, Tamar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women …'s standardized college admission tests amended the language used in its exams, making test language more gender neutral. We find that … the change to a more gender-neutral language was associated with a significant improvement in the performance of women on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322787
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - In: Economics of education review 75 (2020), pp. 1-28
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Sleep : Educational Impact and Habit Formation
Giuntella, Osea; Saccardo, Silvia; Sadoff, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
There is growing evidence on the importance of sleep for productivity, but little is known about the impact of interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both sleep and academic performance. Motivated by...
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Enhancing Human Capital in Children : A Case Study on Scaling
Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico. Our analysis encompasses two separate field experiments, and takes advantage of a unique opportunity to learn from the government's implementation of the program on a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322794
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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs
Entorf, Horst - 2015
migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430761
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An exploration of the determinants of the subjective well-being of Americans during the Great Recession
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Tassot, Caroline - 2014
This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464956