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The Impact of High School Curriculum on Confidence, Academic Success, and Mental and Physical Well-Being of University Students
Yu, Han - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic … attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a curriculum reform in China, the implementation of which started in 2004 … new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919864
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment : Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052505
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide - 2014
, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …. These changes were often effective: study under the new curriculum is robustly associated with changed views on political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054037
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Cross-Border Media and Nationalism : Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2011
triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly attracted by non-political content, many Croats listen to Serbian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125761
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Empirical Determinants of Intertemporal Choice
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2013
We study the empirical determinants of intertemporal choice by analyzing a unique decision Croatian retirees made recently about whether to accept an immediate pension payment or a larger stream of delayed payments. Individual decisions are correlated in sensible ways with income, liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087446
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Favoritism in Organizations
Prendergast, Canice - 2010
Performance evaluations for workers are typically subjective impressions held by supervisors rather than easily quantifiable measures of output. We argue that perhaps the most important aspect this is that it gives supervisors the opportunity to exercise their personal preference towards their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139327
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Laws and Norms
Bénabou, Roland - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118832
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Revising Commitments : Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
Giné, Xavier - 2012
The very poor in developing countries often make intertemporal choices that seem at odds with their individual self-interest. There are many possible reasons why. We investigate several of these reasons with a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Malawi involving large stakes. We make two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106639
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The Cost of Uncertainty About the Timing of Social Security Reform
Caliendo, Frank - 2015
We develop a model to study optimal decision making in the face of uncertainty about the timing and structure of a future event. The model is used to study optimal decision making and welfare when individuals face uncertainty about when and how Social Security will be reformed. When individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014666
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What Comes to Mind
Gennaioli, Nicola - 2010
We present a model of judgment under uncertainty, in which an agent combines data received from the external world with information retrieved from memory to evaluate a hypothesis. We focus on what comes to mind immediately, as the agent makes quick, intuitive evaluations. Because the automatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152441