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-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We … find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast …. Tentative evidence suggests that only active learning stimulates several cognitive and non-cognitive mechanisms; moreover, a …
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As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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-scale randomized intervention in the education context, we find lower levels of prosociality for students who just experienced a 2-year …
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outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …
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