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ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable … understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning …
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Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a setting where students are randomly assigned to a university...
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on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full …
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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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School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning …. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been heterogeneous over countries, within countries and between school … levels. As a consequence, most of the burden of children's learning fell on their parents, with likely uneven results …
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, grounded in active and cooperative learning, focuses on peer interaction, sharing of ideas, learning from mistakes, and problem …
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conditional independence assumption and estimation is implemented using a recent double machine learning estimator. The study … sensitivity of estimates to tuning parameter choices in the machine learning part? (ii) How to assess covariate balancing in high …
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