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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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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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This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...
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This paper consolidates recent methodological developments based on Double Machine Learning (DML) with a focus on …
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This paper addresses the steep learning curve in Machine Learning faced by noncomputer scientists, particularly social … adage "once you understand OLS, you can work your way up to any other estimator," and apply it to Machine Learning. Focusing … and fire some trailblazers to the forefront of AI and causal machine learning. …
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institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters. -- Ideology …
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laboratory experiments ; learning and time effects ; Individual heterogeneity …
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We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
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between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the overall achievement. A cooperative learning approach may instead emerge when … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …
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We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm's value from learning about its workers' behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …
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