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Can non-cognitive skills programs improve achievement? : quasi-experimental evidence from EPIS
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
Do investments in soft skills pay off in terms of student achievement? This paper evaluates a large private-sector program in this area, EPIS, based on individual and small-group sessions of mediators that seek to improve the non-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness)...
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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?
Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022
We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...
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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Bartolini, Stefano; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262207
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Impatience Among Preschool Children and Their Mothers
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother’s impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs...
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Productivity outcomes in online labor markets and within-task complexity and difficultly
Mourelatos, Evaggelos; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas; … - 2020
We analyze the impact of within-task difficulty and complexity on workers' productivity in online labor markets. Using a randomized control quasi-experiment in AMT we are able to define the difficulty and complexity embodied in requested sub-tasks within a problem-solved task. We find that our...
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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters : a large-scale experiment
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020 - This version: July 2, 2020
) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor … market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241582
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Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking
Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017
We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018
Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real … that has examined how and when economic preferences are formed, putting particular emphasis on the role of … intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131213
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Are managers more Machiavellian than other employees?
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023
manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions …
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