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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...
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Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of …
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, with the purpose of enabling students to combine theoretical learning at school with work-based learning. A distinctive …
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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 …
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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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We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...
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In this paper, we document that households’ consumption expenditures depend on their expected earnings - even after controlling for realized earnings and wealth. To explain this evidence, we develop and structurally estimate a standard-incomplete markets model in which rational households...
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