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The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
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We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four … years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction for 3 to 4 hours per week, for two periods of 4-6 weeks per …
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We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …
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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … forms of discrimination identified in our experiment …
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Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …
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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model extended to include heterogeneous expectations, to revisit the evidence that postwar US macroeconomic data can be explained as the outcome of passive monetary policy, indeterminacy, and sunspot-driven fluctuations in the pre-1979 sample, with a switch...
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This paper considers the problem of identification, estimation and inference in the case of spatial panel data models … errors. A quasi maximum likelihood (QML) estimation procedure is developed and the conditions for identification of spatial …
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U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...
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Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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The official unemployment rate has become an inadequate measure of labor market conditions. This poses a major challenge for basic research as well as for the formulation of adequate economic policy. We propose a new definition of the unemployment rate by weighing part-time workers with 62.5%,...
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