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Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...
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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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EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly … even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all levels of education around the world because …-based instruction, but often additional non-technology based inputs such as more time on learning and instructional support by …
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, curriculum. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compare changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from … the affected faculty, before-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate … cohorts from the other faculties. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …
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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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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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with them rises. In addition, learning materials at home, such as books, rise. Also, exploring father outcomes, we find …
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