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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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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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market. We propose a simple learning model where agents can invest in the acquisition of financial knowledge. Differential …
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to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill … also of adults living in the same household ("learning" outweighs "leaning"). Conversely, the 1998 introduction of English …
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Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …
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