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.39 and 0.23 standard deviations, respectively, after four years. We also identify important gender learning gaps with boys …
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This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional facilities during a two-year period in...
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We document that individuals who grew up in areas with high density of firms are more likely, as adults, to become entrepreneurs, controlling for the density of firms in their current location. Conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, the same individuals are also more likely to be successful...
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We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0.13 standard deviations. The effect is still present three...
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We investigate learning at the workplace. To do so, we use German administrative data that contain information on the … methodology builds on the observation that a competitive labor market prices coworker learning. Our quantitative approach imposes … and flexible coworker learning functions. In line with our reduced form results, learning from coworkers is significant …
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-organizing instruction based on children's actual learning levels, rather than on a prescribed syllabus, and has previously been shown to be … of this process, two versions of the programs were developed that successfully raised children's learning levels using …
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Education officials often use one assessment system both to create measures of student achievement and to create performance metrics for educators. However, modern standardized testing systems are not designed to produce performance metrics for teachers or principals. They are designed to...
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Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over …-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO … Pratham's approach to teaching children according to their actual learning level, in four Indian States. While this approach …
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To help first- or second-year graduate students in economics apply their theoretical training, this paper shows how to solve a simple and intuitive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model using a calculator. Because this simplified Harberger model uses Cobb Douglas functional forms for...
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We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with...
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