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Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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Multicollinearity, especially in combination with errors-in-variables, can increase the likelihood of a Type-I error by inflating the value of the estimated coefficients by more than it magnifies their standard errors, thereby increasing the likelihood of obtaining statistically significant...
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In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation...
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Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
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-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … different than non-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …
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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 …
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Reflection Test. In pre-registered laboratory experiments with 1,236 college students in Nairobi, we implement three incentive …
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in motivating desirable behaviour. In contrast to a standard program, in which students receive a reward conditional on … promise program through a field study involving Indigenous Australian high school students, a population who tends to have … of disadvantaged students. At the same time, we need further research on how to best design such programs to achieve …
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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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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 …
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