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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
. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …
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Cramming : The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students
Donovan, Colleen - 2010
This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long … basic skills apparently led to generally reduced performance by high-achieving students, while an accountability system … other technical subjects. Both types of systems are associated with increased quot;crammingquot; by students in college. The …
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Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium : Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement
Conley, Timothy Guy - 2015
We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections
Liu, Laura - 2020
We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833111
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Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic
Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2020
We study the role of global supply chains in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GDP growth for 64 countries. We discipline the labor supply shock across sectors and countries using the fraction of work in the sector that can be done from home, interacted with the stringency with which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833120
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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks
Hong, Harrison G. - 2020
epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth …
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Us Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic
Ganong, Peter - 2020
We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and...
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Covid-19 and Emerging Markets : An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows
Çakmaklı, Cem - 2020
We quantify the macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 for emerging markets using a SIR-multisector-small open economy model and calibrating it to Turkey. Domestic infection rates feed into both sectoral supply and sectoral demand shocks. Sectoral demand shocks also incorporate lower external demand...
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Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials for Anti‐Infective Therapeutics During Epidemic Outbreaks
Chaudhuri, Shomesh - 2020
path during such outbreaks. When the epidemic is more infectious and fatal, the Bayesian-optimal sample size in the … and the regulatory approval process to the specific parameters and stage of the epidemic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833747
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Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Outpatient Providers in the Us
Chatterji, Pinka - 2020
There is growing concern that the COVID-19 pandemic may have severe, adverse effects on the health care sector, a sector of the economy that historically has been somewhat shielded from the business cycle. In this paper, we study one aspect of this issue by estimating the magnitude of the...
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