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Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence development? We add to previous research by … investigating the relationship between preschoolers' self-regulation and their mathematical competence and its development early in …
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Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...
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the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
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account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within … knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …
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occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
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This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial …, the video treatment enhanced financial knowledge scores by more than 50 percent of a standard deviation. Conversely, the …
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