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Effect of Inquiry and Problem Based Pedagogy on Learning : Evidence from 10 Field Experiments in Four Countries
Bando, Rosangela - 2019
This paper uses data from 10 at-scale field experiments in four countries to estimate the effect of inquiry- and problem-based pedagogy (IPP) on students' mathematics and science test scores. IPP creates active problem-solving opportunities in settings that provide meaning to the child. Students...
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126042
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The Race between Demand and Supply : Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality
Heckman, James J. - 2019
Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895908
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Technological Change, Occupational Tasks and Declining Immigrant Outcomes : Implications for Earnings and Income Inequality in Canada
Warman, Casey - 2015
The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of … university education. Controlling for education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020202
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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, … - 2021
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...
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Explaining Rising Income and Wage Inequality Among the College Educated
Hoxby, Caroline M.; Long, Bridget - 2021
and the increasing correlation between the average aptitude of a college's student body and its expenditure on education … inputs. These tendencies are the result of changes in the market structure of college education, as documented elsewhere. We … college education can be similarly explained. Of the growth that can be explained, about 1/4th is associated with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233448
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility, Inequality, and Growth
Owen, Ann L.; Weil, David N. - 2021
We examine a model in which per capita income, inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education are all … education with transfers received from their parents, and are subject to liquidity constraints. In the model, multiple steady … efficient distribution of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249148
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2021
The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
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Age, Education and Occupational Earnings Inequality
Wolff, Edward N.; Bushe, Dennis M. - 2021
In this paper, we will investigate the effect of six factors on occupational earnings inequality across all occupations in our sample and across occupations in five major Census subgroups. Those six factors are: differences in tasks, different levels of efficiency, institutional factors, time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313270
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The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers
Carrell, Scott E. - 2016
A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education. However, there is relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997886