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advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of … profiles using the example of career prediction and advice, involving a comparison of average trait scores of successful …
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people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm …) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent human advice, and test whether transparency about advice source matters. We … find that dishonesty-promoting advice increases dishonesty, whereas honesty-promoting advice does not increase honesty …
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...
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assessment and a report with improvement advice (light intervention), and a third set of facilities served as a control group. In … intervention concluded. The light intervention showed no consistent effects at either point. We conclude that sustained supervision …
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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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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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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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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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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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Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of …
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