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Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …

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Gender Role Models in Education

Goulas, Sofoklis; Gunawardena, Bhagya N.; … - 2024

Using Greek administrative data, we examine the impact of being randomly assigned to a classroom with a same-gender top-performing student on both short- and long-term educational outcomes. These top performers are tasked with keeping classroom attendance records, which positions them as role...

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Disruptive Peers and Academic Performance: Short- and Long-Term Outcomes

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of...

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Digital Skills: Social Disparities and the Impact of Early Mentoring

Kosse, Fabian; Leffler, Tim; Woemmel, Arna - 2024

We investigate social disparities in digital skills, focusing on both actual proficiency levels and confidence in these skills. Drawing on a representative sample from Germany, we first demonstrate that both dimensions strongly predict labor market success. We then use this sample to identify...

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Earnings Expectations of "First-in Family" University Students and Their Role for Major Choice

Adler, Katharina; Kosse, Fabian; Nagler, Markus; … - 2025

How do students' earnings expectations differ by being the first in their family to attend university (FiF) and how do they affect field of study choice? We leverage unique survey and administrative data from a German university to document sizable gaps in expected earnings between FiF and...

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Alternative Measures of Teachers’ Value Added and Impact on Short and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from Random Assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

A recent critique of using teachers’ test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

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Firm Training

Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...

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Ready for School? Effects on School Starters of Establishing School Psychology Offices in Norway

Flatø, Martin; Bratsberg, Bernt; Kotsadam, Andreas; … - 2023

We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced 'maturity testing' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after...

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Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?

Battisti, Michele; Fedorets, Alexandra; Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

While gender diﬀerences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel ﬁndings on cognitive skill distributions by gender across 34 countries....

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Female Classmates, Disruption, and STEM Outcomes in Disadvantaged Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2023

Recent research has shown that females make classrooms more conducive to effective learning. We identify the effect of a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the...

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