setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students …

field experiment in which we sent 1,248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants …

Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized … Bayesian model, we empirically document the interplay between variance reductions and mean changes of beliefs about students … the intervention affects schooling trajectories, with better performing students being assigned into more academically …

In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university students, we provide real-time private … all quantiles and extend beyond the time of the intervention. The mechanism behind these findings involves social learning …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …

children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food … but are important to consider when designing an experiment as causal effects of treatments can be attenuated if the …

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 …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …