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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George - 2016

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys

Jeong, Dahyeon; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Robinson, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Living standards measurement surveys require sustained attention for several hours. We quantify survey fatigue by randomizing the order of questions in 2-3 hour-long in-person surveys. An additional hour of survey time increases the probability that a respondent skips a question by 10-64%....

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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

Chor, Davin - 2005

respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic …The 2004 Global Labor Survey (GLS) is an Internet-based survey that seeks to measure de facto labor practices in … countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …

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Digital Messaging to Improve College Enrollment and Success

Avery, Christopher - 2020

We investigate the efficacy of text messaging campaigns to remind students about and support them with key steps in the college search, application, selection and transition process. First, in collaboration with the College Board and uAspire, both national non-profit organizations, we...

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The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Gerber, Alan - 2008

During the contest for Kansas attorney general in 2006, an organization sent out 6 pieces of mail criticizing the incumbent's conduct in office. We exploit a discontinuity in the rule used to select which households received the mailings to identify the causal effect of mail on vote choice and...

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Student Coaching : How Far Can Technology Go?

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2016

Recent studies show that programs offering structured, one-on-one coaching and tutoring tend to have large effects on the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult to scale, however, calling into question whether making...

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Following Through on Good Intentions : The Power of Planning Prompts

Milkman, Katherine L. - 2012

We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals' responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial appointments. At four companies, all employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to receive either a control mailing or a treatment mailing. The...

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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions

Manski, Charles F. - 2000

Economists have long been ambivalent about whether the discipline should focus on the analysis of markets or should be concerned with social interactions more generally. Recently the discipline has sought to broaden its scope while maintaining the rigor of modern economic analysis. Major...

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Firm-to-Firm Trade : Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market

Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel; Kramarz, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that...

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Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality : Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics

Imbens, Guido - 2019

In this essay I discuss potential outcome and graphical approaches to causality, and their relevance for empirical work in economics. I review some of the work on directed acyclic graphs, including the recent "The Book of Why," ([Pearl and Mackenzie, 2018]). I also discuss the potential outcome...

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