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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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Law, human capital and the emergence of free city-states in medieval Italy
Belloc, Marianna; Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2017 - This version: November 6, 2017
In this paper, we study how the birth of the first universities in Italy affected the emergence of the Italian free cities-states (the commune) in the period 1000-1300 a.d. Exploiting a panel dataset of 121 cities, we show that after the foundation of a new university the distance between each...
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Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment
Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
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More schooling, more children? : compulsory schooling and fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431274
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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Student abilities during the expansion of US education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013
The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021
Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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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 …
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