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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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the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …
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This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of … a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …
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This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle … schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing … the administrative data of students from a city in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, we estimated the effects of class closures …
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average quality of students enrolled following the reform. Additionally, the policy contributed to an increase in on …
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Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …
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. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …
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achievement through several distinct channels. From a sample of nearly 25,000 students across three different campuses, we find … evaluate significantly influences academic outcomes (even for those students more at risk of dropping out). We interpret the … results with our survey data and a model of student effort. Students study about five to eight hours fewer each week than they …
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This study assesses the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement. We survey college students about …
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-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with improvement in students' standardised test scores. However, budget allocation …
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