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Does Gifted Education Work? For Which Students?
Card, David - 2014
Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students. As in the debate over selective college admissions, a key issue is targeting. Should gifted and talented programs be allocated on the basis of cognitive ability, or a broader...
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Wage Inequality and Cognitive Skills : Re-Opening the Debate
Broecke, Stijn - 2016
Inequality in the United States is high by international standards, and keeps rising. This is likely to bring significant social as well as economic costs, including lower growth. In this paper, we use the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to revisit the debate on the relative importance of skills...
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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Breza, Emily - 2016
-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily …
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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams
Juster, Thomas - 2014
explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …
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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013
Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...
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Networks and Workouts : Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment
Babcock, Philip - 2010
the estimation of spillovers. In a field experiment using university students, we find that subjects who have been …
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Gun for Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd Out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....
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Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2012
Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately …
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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Kimbrough, Erik O. - 2017
curriculum and the instructional behavior of teachers. To fill this gap, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects …
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Peer Effects in Computer Assisted Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
We conduct a large scale RCT to investigate peer effects in computer assisted learning (CAL). Identification of peer effects relies on three levels of randomization. It is already known that CAL improves math test scores in Chinese rural schools. We find that paired treatment improves the...
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