. Implemented in ten secondary schools in Turin (Italy) over the period 2019-2022, the Coding Girls program provided lab … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …This paper evaluates the impact of “Coding Girls”, an educational enrichment program designed to address the …

job search is verified. The threat of monitoring increases transitions to employment, but of lower quality. In the less …

combines a review of the emerging international literature with new evidence from German longitudinal time-use surveys. Based … and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one …

conducive to child development. The learning gap was not compensated by parents or schools who provided less support for low …-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys …In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We …

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these … differences between schools influence longer-term outcomes, especially outside the US. In this paper I study the value-added (VA …

We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in … administrative data on their portfolio composition and their trading activity. We establish five facts in this data: (1) Beliefs are … are optimistic and some are pessimistic. (4) Investors who expect higher cash flow growth also expect higher returns and …

This paper presents a micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches. Using a survey among German firms …

macroeconomic variables jointly and the non-response to long-run forward guidance is consistent with models in which agents have …