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Learning about oneself : the effects of performance feedback on school choice

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2016

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...

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Job design, learning & intrinsic motivation

Gibbs, Michael - 2021

According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of this is presented. Learning may make work less onerous, or the employee may value it in and of itself. Multitasking generates learning: performing one task increases...

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Rank incentives and social learning : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Dobrescu, Loretti Isabella; Faravelli, Marco; … - 2019

identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e., the incentives stemming from an inherent preference for high rank …). We find that rank incentives not only boost performance in the related assignment, but also increase the average grade …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …

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A hands-on machine learning primer for social scientists : math, algorithms and code

Askitas, Nikos - 2024

This paper addresses the steep learning curve in Machine Learning faced by noncomputer scientists, particularly social scientists, stemming from the absence of a primer on its fundamental principles. I adopt a pedagogical strategy inspired by the adage "once you understand OLS, you can work your...

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Double machine learning based program evaluation under unconfoundedness

Knaus, Michael C. - 2020

This paper consolidates recent methodological developments based on Double Machine Learning (DML) with a focus on program evaluation under unconfoundedness. DML based methods leverage flexible prediction methods to control for confounding in the estimation of (i) standard average effects, (ii)...

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The speed of employer learning and job market signaling revisited

Habermalz, Steffen (contributor) - 2006

This paper discusses the claim made in Altonji and Pierret (1997) and Lange (2005) that a high speed of employer learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed intuitively in light of Spence’s original model and then evaluated in a simple extension of a...

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The rate of learning-by-doing : estimates from a search-matching model

Prat, Julien (contributor) - 2007

We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and idiosyncratic productivity follows a geometric Brownian motion. The proposed framework enables us to endogenize job destruction and to estimate the rate of learning-by-doing....

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Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion

Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2012

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General … dispersion ; search model ; heterogeneity …

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Asymmetric information between employers

Kahn, Lisa B. - 2013

Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are compensated. This study explores whether learning is symmetric or asymmetric, i.e., whether potential employers have the same information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I...

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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014

In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...

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