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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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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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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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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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The complexity of economic policy : I. Restricted local optima in tax policy design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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Individual rationality and learning : welfare expectations in East Germany post-reunification

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002

In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a large shock to the future prospects of the...

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Your move : the effect of chess on mathematics test scores

Gumede, Kamilla; Rosholm, Michael - 2015

We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a comprehensive data base from administrative register. We use a...

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