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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary …We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … education spending and teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment …
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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui - 2014
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067063
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Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010
consequences of international mobility of managerial know-how. We use the model and aggregate data to infer the relative scarcity …
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Scaling the Digital Divide : Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement
Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2014
administrative data on North Carolina public school students to corroborate earlier surveys that document broad racial and …
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Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
Figlio, David N. - 2015
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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Peer Effects in Computer Assisted Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
strong students during treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a school intervention has been identified in …
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Improving Non-Academic Student Outcomes Using Online and Text-Message Coaching
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2018
administrative data on academic outcomes with a unique follow-up survey on student well-being and study habits, we estimate positive …
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Technology's Edge : The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
Barrow, Lisa - 2009
We present results from a randomized study of a well-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program for pre-algebra and algebra. We assess the program using a test designed to target pre-algebra and algebra skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided...
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Books or Laptops? The Cost-Effectiveness of Shifting from Printed to Digital Delivery of Educational Content
Bando, Rosangela - 2016
Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users … with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977616
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2016
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes. Our setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided winning students with a voucher to cover program costs. We find that lottery...
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