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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 … expenditure regardless of their level of literacy. Spillovers not only raise the cost effectiveness of health information programs …
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information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences … common to preferences in this class. We illustrate our approach by analyzing data from a large scale experiment conducted … with a sample of participants randomly drawn from the Dutch population. We find that behavior of players in the experiment …
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all quantiles and extend beyond the time of the intervention. The mechanism behind these findings involves social learning …
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We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized …
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Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
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The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
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investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the …
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initial uncertainty in the external market but the possibility of subsequent learning about match-specific productivity, we …
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We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
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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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