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We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover … gender difference in learning (only) in the household …
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This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations-innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...
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As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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We examine how machine learning can be used to improve and understand human decision-making. In particular, we focus on … released. This is a promising machine learning application because it is a concrete prediction task for which there is a large … results suggest that while machine learning can be valuable, realizing this value requires integrating these tools into an …
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In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the potential for technology to transform learning. As … technologies from which to choose—from digital personalized learning platforms to educational games to online courses. Amidst the … technology: (1) access to technology, (2) computer-assisted learning, (3) technology-enabled behavioral interventions in …
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Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely …-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the positive effects …
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This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an internet...
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learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security … and learning productivities are far from perfectly correlated, with private institutions receiving relatively higher … rankings under earning measures than under learning measures; 2) earning measures are significantly more correlated with …
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A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...
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We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning may mitigate this effect. Student fixed … learning time. New nationwide, school-level measures of air-conditioning penetration suggest patterns consistent with such … infrastructure largely offsetting heat's effects. Without air-conditioning, a 1°F hotter school year reduces that year's learning by …
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