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We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
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in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend … increased time investments in students' skill development. Overall, my results suggest that selective admission policies can … lead to permanent improvements in students' educational performances. …
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are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
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effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …
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Credence goods, such as car repairs or medical services, are characterized by severe informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers, leading to fraud in the form of provision of insufficient service (undertreatment), provision of unnecessary service (overtreatment) and charging too much...
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We compare the behavior of car mechanics and college students as sellers in experimental credence goods markets …
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stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … pay gaps and potential explanations. We find that female students earn about 6% less on average than male students, which … male and female students pursue. …
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economic preferences. In our study, the latter are also related in a meaningful way to students' field behavior. …
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