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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 …
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I first summarize and critically discuss the different normative views that are operational in the academic literature on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and compare it to utilitarians and Rawlsians. I finish with...
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are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …
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the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …
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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 …
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,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors …. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that … women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students …
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two-year program in which three fourth and fifth grade teachers observed each other. We find that two cohorts of students …
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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 …
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We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...
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We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government has a limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its education policy to maximize welfare under autarky. Then the economy trades with the rest of the world. Lastly, the government...
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