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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped … precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and by … another 7 percent from fall 2020 to fall 2021. The California Community College system lost nearly 300,000 students over this …
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effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …
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Many university students depend on employment during their studies. The closing of universities and the loss of many … German university, we analyze changes in students' income and its composition throughout the different phases of the pandemic …. Students' job income declined by 66% (total income by 19%), on average, during the first lockdown. There was a quick recovery …
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We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due … to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable method with the Maimonides rule to … administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …
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administrative and survey data before the pandemic, we find that both teachers and students in lower performing regions were using no …
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, which includes the results of standardized tests given to all Italian students in grades 2 and 5 and parental …
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the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …
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