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Peers Affect Personality Development
Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers along several dimensions. Students with more competitive...
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The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
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Getting Lucky: The Long-Term Consequences of Exam Luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Éric; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals' education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
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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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The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837670
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High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
math and language. The impact of gifted students is, however, highly heterogeneous along three dimensions. First, we … presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314748
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Getting Lucky : The Long-Term Consequences of Exam Luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300875
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358324
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …
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The Education-Innovation Gap
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...
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