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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education …-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus on redistribution arises from the inherent class...
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Institutional constraints to counter potential abuses in the use of political power have been viewed as essential to well functioning political institutions and good public policy outcomes in the Western World since the time of ancient Greece. A sophisticated intellectual tradition emerged to...
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Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct … (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this paper, we study education inequality in LAC … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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Programs that engage young children in movement and song to help them learn are popular but experimental evidence on their impact is sparse. We use an RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of Big Word Club (BWC), a classroom program that uses music and dance videos for 3-5 minutes per day to...
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Education systems need to withstand frequent shocks, including conflict, disease, natural disasters, and climate events …, all of which routinely close schools. During these emergencies, alternative models are needed to deliver education … multiple countries. We present results from large-scale randomized trials evaluating the provision of education in emergency …
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Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test scores and other outcomes. Widely-disseminated school ratings frameworks compare average student achievement...
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We study the distributional effects of remote learning. Our approach combines newly collected data on parental preferences with administrative data from Los Angeles. The preference data allow us to account for selection into remote learning while also studying selection patterns and treatment...
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Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that created small high school...
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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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