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over 15 years ago, EBLI aims to provide teachers with instructional strategies to improve reading accuracy, fluency and … classrooms during the 2014-15 school year, we find no significant impact on reading performance. Teacher survey responses and …
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preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents … information about the importance of reading to children. The treatment increased usage of the reading application by one standard …
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the effect of order-preserving scale transformations on the evolution of the black-white reading test score gap from …
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We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train … teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …
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This paper presents the results from a randomized controlled trial of Chapter One, an early elementary reading tutoring … over two times more likely to reach the program's target reading level by the end of kindergarten (70% vs. 32%). The … provide promising evidence of an affordable and sustainable approach for delivering personalized reading tutoring at scale …
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This paper is concerned with three types of incentive programs. First, individual wage incentives that cause a worker's efforts to have a major effect on his pay. Second, group incentives in which the pay of an individual is determined by the output of a group of workers-a group can be as small...
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Large and persistent differences across industries in wages paid for given occupations have commonly been observed. Recently, the efficiency wage model (EWM) has been advanced as an explanation for these wage differentials. The shirking version of the EWM assumes a trade-off between...
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In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...
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We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...
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This paper examines the role of educational expectations in the educational attainment process. We utilize data from a variety of datasets to document and analyze the trends in educational expectations between the mid-1970s and the early 2000s. We focus on differences across racial/ethnic and...
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