This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the … 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 …

line with a reinforcement learning model, we find that subjects who won a random lottery took significantly more risk in a …

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive … and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the …-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and …

learning model using 191 different audio features embedded within music and use this model to construct a long-run Music …-run comparisons with other data. We construct a new measure based on the emotional content of music. We first trained a machine … satisfaction and outperforms an equivalent text-based measure. Our results have implications for the role of music in society, and …

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 …

Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of …