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Using predictive analytics to track students : evidence from a seven-college experiment

Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodríguez, Julio - 2021

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and reliability, and unnecessarily place students from...

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Skill formation, temporary disadvantage and elite education

Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020

Elite skills have become crucial in today’s superstar economy. We develop a multi-period skill-formation model where we show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This “underdog-incentive effect” implies that “educated...

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Can peer mentoring improve online teaching effectiveness? : an RCT during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2020

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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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced "University Technical Colleges" (UTCs) in 2010 for...

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Academic migration and academic networks : evidence from scholarly big data and the iron curtain

Kamel, Donia; Pollacci, Paura - 2023

Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, a scholarly big data source, mapping of academics' networks is possible and information … anticipation of the fall of the Eastern Bloc and together with the data that offers unique rich information, identification is … two channels, the cost and signalling channel. The cost channel is how the network characteristic reduces or increases the …

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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel

De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023

This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel. Productivity losses build up over time and are estimated...

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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment

Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022

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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Too late to buy a home? : school redistricting and the timing and extent of capitalization

Ding, Xiaozhou; Bollinger, Christopher R.; Clark, Michael; … - 2022

. Critical to properly estimating the effect of redistricting is to account for when information on the rezoning is available. We … treat the information about the effects of zoning as occurring in three stages: announcement, approval of the zoning plan …

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Do management practices matter in further education?

McNally, Sandra; Schmidt, Luis; Valero, Anna - 2022

Further Education colleges are a key way in which 16-19 year olds acquire skills in the UK (much like US Community Colleges), especially those from low income backgrounds. Yet, little is known about what could improve performance in these institutions. We design and conduct the world’s first...

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