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What happens when college students are not able to enroll in the courses they want? We use a natural experiment at Purdue University in which first-year students are conditionally randomly assigned to oversubscribed courses. Compared to students who are assigned a requested course, those who are...
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adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges adopt a less demanding curriculum in order to accommodate the influx … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …
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Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the potential for youth camps—integrating rituals, sports, and civics training—to strengthen intergroup cohesion. We randomly assigned Hindu and Muslim...
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reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure …, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …. These changes were often effective: study under the new curriculum is robustly associated with changed views on political …
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We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
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faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we …
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We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign … administrative student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to …
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Introductory economics courses emphasize opportunity cost, comparative advantage and specialization to show the benefits of trade. We assert that this emphasize leads to erroneous student mindset that trade requires specialization based on comparative advantage. We test students who have been...
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It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on...
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Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...
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