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One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …
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available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to …
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In this paper, I examine the relationship between sibling sex composition and educational achievement. First, I replicate the study of Butcher and Case (1994) using data on a more recent birth cohort. Contrary to the findings of that study, I find basically no effect of sibling sex composition...
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational … evidence showing no change in homework time or other "intermediate" inputs in education …
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different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is … used to interpret changes in the relative quantities, wages, and wage bill shares of workers by education in the aggregate … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …
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be correlated with both job-related computer use and earnings. The estimates suggest that workers who use computers on … education, Finally, occupations that experienced greater growth in computer use between 1984 and 1989 also experienced above …
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interpretation of the computer-use wage differential as reflecting productivity effects arising from the introduction of computers in …
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This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...
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-designed technology-aided instruction programs can sharply improve productivity in delivering education …We present experimental evidence on the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program on …
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We examine the effect of electoral rules on the quality of elected officials using a unique field experiment which induced randomized variation in the method of council elections in 250 villages in Afghanistan. In particular, we compare at-large elections, with a single multi-member district, to...
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