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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510702
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491979
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529488
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Mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : what do we know about them?
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153571
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Heterogeneity in the production of human capital
Polachek, Solomon W.; Das, Tirthatanmoy; … - 2013
We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ability measures (two representing the ability to learn and one the ability to earn), a rate of skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729709
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker : the peer effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Kaplan, Todd R. (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656908
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Wage dynamics and unobserved heterogeneity : time preference or learning ability?
Munasinghe, Lalith (contributor);  … - 2004
inherently unobservable sources of heterogeneity learning ability and workers' inter-temporal preferences (discounting) both of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002529741
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364492
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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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