Showing 1 - 10 of 52
paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865171
the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079650
years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312078
any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in … economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293027
Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833743
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834990
of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We … also find that pro-vision of feedback reduces the gap between teachers. self-assessment and students. assessment, but only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836929
Reflection Test. In pre-registered laboratory experiments with 1,236 college students in Nairobi, we implement three incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838245
. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840212
For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889756