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The Impact of High School Curriculum on Confidence, Academic Success, and Mental and Physical Well-Being of University Students
Yu, Han - 2018
attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a curriculum reform in China, the implementation of which started in 2004 …This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic … new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453144
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Term Length and Political Performance
Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2008
We evaluate the effects of the duration of legislative terms on the performance of legislators. We exploit a natural experiment in the Argentine House of Representatives where term lengths were assigned randomly. Results for various objective measures of legislative output show that longer terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464136
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Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction : The Case of Higher Education
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2007
This paper develops an original measure of learning in higher education, based on grades in subsequent courses. Using this measure of learning, this paper shows that student evaluations are positively related to current grades but unrelated to learning once current grades are controlled. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465812
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Capital Flows to the New World as an Intergenerational Transfer
Taylor, Alan M. - 1991
countries of Canada, Australia, the USA, Argentina and the rest of Latin America. The resource abundant New World was endowed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475065
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Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices
Cavallo, Alberto - 2014
Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in lower-inflation contexts have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458089
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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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The Impact of Fake Reviews on Demand and Welfare
Akesson, Jesper; Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Although fake online customer reviews have become prevalent on platforms such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook, little is known about how these reviews influence consumer behavior. This paper provides the first experimental estimates of the effects of fake reviews on individual demand and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436967
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Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in student to degree match
Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We...
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Do Income Contingent Student Loan Programs Distort Earnings? Evidence from the UK
Britton, Jack W. - 2019
Government backed income contingent student loans are an increasingly being used to fund higher education. An income contingent repayment plan acts as an incremental marginal tax on labor earnings, which could cause individuals to distort their work effort. This paper uses an administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479772