Showing 1 - 10 of 778
2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either … an online or in-person class. Final grades for online students dropped by 0.215 standard deviations; a result apparent in … both assignments and exams and largest for academically at-risk students. A post-course survey finds that online students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517872
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda … business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school … students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822079
learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805871
, which includes the results of standardized tests given to all Italian students in grades 2 and 5 and parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470101
how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671002
administrative and survey data before the pandemic, we find that both teachers and students in lower performing regions were using no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705693
-being, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction as the cognitive dimension of well-being. Little is known about the … rapidly as compared to life satisfaction. Contrary to existing studies, we find decreases in emotional well-being but not in … life satisfaction in anticipation of unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196016
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694834
We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household … longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates … internal LOC is associated with higher marital satisfaction and that own LOC matters more for marital satisfaction than spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109472
It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual's starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311622