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ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable … understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning …
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We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...
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I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
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School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning …. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been heterogeneous over countries, within countries and between school … levels. As a consequence, most of the burden of children's learning fell on their parents, with likely uneven results …
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, grounded in active and cooperative learning, focuses on peer interaction, sharing of ideas, learning from mistakes, and problem …
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conditional independence assumption and estimation is implemented using a recent double machine learning estimator. The study … sensitivity of estimates to tuning parameter choices in the machine learning part? (ii) How to assess covariate balancing in high …
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with them rises. In addition, learning materials at home, such as books, rise. Also, exploring father outcomes, we find …
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We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
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confidence of boys but decreases the confidence of girls, not just in mathematics, but also in their self-assessment of other …
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