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When the early bird catches the worm: The impact of training in retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …

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Students' cheating as a social interaction: Evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program

Lucifora, Claudio; Tonello, Marco - 2012

effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …

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E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance

Amer-Mestre, Josep; Ayarza-Astigarraga, Alaitz; Lopes, … - 2021

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school … less e-learning tools than higher performing ones. These two findings suggest that the COVID-19 shock widened the e-learning …

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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325437

Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2006

us to address these problems. We find that an adolescent's performance at the end of junior high-school are strongly …

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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children

Ohinata, Asako; van Ours, Jan C. - 2011

In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...

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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement

Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001

We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …

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