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Friendship networks and political opinions: a natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2020
We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, the cradle of top French politicians. We exploit arbitrary assignments of students into short-term integration groups before their scholar cursus, and use the pairwise...
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IC technology and learning : an impact evaluation of cl ssi2.0
Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - 2015
In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
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Divorce: what does learning have to do with it?
Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2015
Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …
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Child labor and learning
Emerson, Patrick M.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, André … - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten
Araujo, María Caridad; Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2016
We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...
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The dynamics of domestic violence: learning about the match
Anderberg, Dan; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2021
We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when they cannot directly observe whether a given male partner is of a violent type or not. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data...
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Upside-down down-under: cold temperatures reduce learning in Australia
Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel; Mendolia, Silvia; … - 2021
Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of …
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Accounting for peer effects in treatment response
Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera, Felipe - 2014
When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
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Job contact networks and wages of rural-urban migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates why the use of social network to...
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