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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …
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Becker meets Ricardo : multisector matching with social and cognitive skills
McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - 2012
individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production …, but specialization requires communication and coordination between team members, and individuals with more social skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537710
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The long-term impacts of low-achieving childhood peers : evidence from project STAR
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376244
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment
Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart; … - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to older, more experienced classroom peers resulting from the widespread use of multi-grade classes in Scottish primary schools. For identification, we exploit that a class-planning algorithm quasi-randomly assigns groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find...
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Everybody needs good neighbours? : evidence from students' outcomes in England
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2011
We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on changes in neighbourhood composition caused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422219
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Cognitive, socioemotional and behavioral returns to college quality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment, behavioral preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that...
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Overconfident boys : the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Jerrim, John Peter; Pingault, … - 2023
It is well established that boys perceive themselves to be better in mathematics than girls, even when their ability is the same. We examine the drivers of this male overconfidence in self-assessed mathematics ability using a longitudinal study of twins. This allows us to control for family...
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Time to work or time to play : the effect of student employment on homework, sleep, and screen time
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2009
We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities. Time-diary data are more detailed and accurate than...
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Computer gaming and test scores : cross-country gender differences among teenagers
Algan, Yann; Fortin, Nicole Marie - 2016
Using the PISA surveys (2000-2012), this paper explores the relationship between math test scores and everyday computer gaming by gender and for high income and middle income countries. We use two identification strategies in the spirit of an ideal experiment that would reduce computer gaming...
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