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We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores …
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Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade in order to allow them to gain the academic or social skills that teachers believe are necessary to succeed academically. This practice is highly controversial, with many researchers claiming that it leads to higher dropout...
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Despite the large amount of attention that has been paid recently to understanding the determinants of educational outcomes, knowledge of the causal effect of the most fundamental input in the education production function - students' study time and effort - has remained virtually non-existent....
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Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and...
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overlapping exam preparation and a dense testing schedule. This multitask learning can be intense, under pressure, and challenge … learning. The first exploits random variation in the number of weekly tests--the second hinges on days with multiple exams …
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We survey work using Bayesian learning in macroeconomics, highlighting common themes and new directions. First, we … present many of the common types of learning problems agents face---signal extraction problems---and trace out their effects … information. Models differ in their motives for information acquisition and the cost of information, or learning technology …
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Interventions to promote learning are often categorized into supply- and demand-side approaches. In a randomized … experiment to promote learning about COVID-19 among Mozambican adults, we study the interaction between a supply and a demand …
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experience-based learning and sketch a simple model of its role in the stock market based on Malmendier et al. (2020a,b). I then …
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We explore a model of non-Bayesian information aggregation in networks. Agents non-cooperatively choose among Friedkin-Johnsen type aggregation rules to maximize payoffs. The DeGroot rule is chosen in equilibrium if and only if there is noiseless information transmission...leading to consensus....
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.39 and 0.23 standard deviations, respectively, after four years. We also identify important gender learning gaps with boys …
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