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Can non-cognitive skills programs improve achievement? : quasi-experimental evidence from EPIS
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
Do investments in soft skills pay off in terms of student achievement? This paper evaluates a large private-sector program in this area, EPIS, based on individual and small-group sessions of mediators that seek to improve the non-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119164
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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Bartolini, Stefano; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794500
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262207
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Productivity outcomes in online labor markets and within-task complexity and difficultly
Mourelatos, Evaggelos; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas; … - 2020
We analyze the impact of within-task difficulty and complexity on workers' productivity in online labor markets. Using a randomized control quasi-experiment in AMT we are able to define the difficulty and complexity embodied in requested sub-tasks within a problem-solved task. We find that our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391079
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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters : a large-scale experiment
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020 - This version: July 2, 2020
) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor … market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241582
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Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking
Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017
We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120573
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018
Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real … that has examined how and when economic preferences are formed, putting particular emphasis on the role of … intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with …
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Are managers more Machiavellian than other employees?
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023
manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332034
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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
We use the American Community Survey (ACS) to investigate the extent to which college major decisions were affected during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by gender, race/ethnicity and combinations of race/ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119578
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Lost wages : the COVID-19 cost of school closures
Psacharopoulos, George; Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, … - 2020
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reported that 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the...
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