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This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...
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This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of such a program receiving students, this paper studies...
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Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...
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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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educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and one-on-one phone learning support. We find that offering an … acting as a signal or nudge. These behavioral changes result in lasting learning gains concentrated among richer households … usage of the targeted educational service limits parental behavioral responses. This implies that learning gains in these …
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learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of …
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Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely … peer-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the …
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institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters …
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school quality is provided to households and schools. There are no significant improvements in the learning outcomes of … absenteeism but saw no improvements in learning outcomes possibly because of constrained school choice set. Overall, our results … suggest that information on the relative quality of schools can be a cheap and effective tool for improving learning outcomes …
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The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...
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