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Isolating the 'Tech' from EdTech : Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
Ma, Yue - 2020
EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all levels of education around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic. Studies of CAL...
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Tutoring in (Online) Higher Education : Experimental Evidence
Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022
Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...
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Can Peer Mentoring Improve Online Teaching Effectiveness? An RCT During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2021
Online delivery of higher education has taken center stage but is fraught with issues of student self-organization. We conducted an RCT to study the effects of remote peer mentoring at a German university that switched to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mentors and mentees met...
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The Association of Opening K-12 Schools and Colleges with the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States : County-Level Panel Data Analysis
Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021
This paper empirically examines how the opening of K-12 schools and colleges is associated with the spread of COVID-19 using county-level panel data in the United States. Using data on foot traffic and K-12 school opening plans, we analyze how an increase in visits to schools and opening schools...
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Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...
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Inequality and Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Kastis, Yannis; Preston, Ian - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This is a period when the share of foreign-born in the UK population increased from 5.3% in 1975 to 13.4% in 2015. We evaluate the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK...
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga - 2019
labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants …
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
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Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks : Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-Market Work Among US Immigrants
Blau, Francine D. - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
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