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 …

school on both students' learning and mothers' labor supply. we rely on unique application-to-primary-school data: first, we … the groups of students and mothers for whom the effect seems to be larger are not those more likely to apply to the FT …

to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …. Scores declined by an average of 14 percent of a standard deviation, roughly equal to seven months of learning. Losses were … greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and … about their students' reading achievements by using a randomized controlled trial. We find that the teachers' baseline … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …

of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … 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 …

natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when … support their child. The combined treatment cost-effectively improves learning by 0.12 standard deviations. We develop remote … assessment innovations, which show robust learning outcomes. Our findings have immediate policy relevance and long …

first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year …

that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face … experiment across seven colleges to evaluate the algorithm's effects on students. Placement rates into college-level courses … track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and …

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers …