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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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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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The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market

Deming, David J. - 2015

model of team production where workers "trade tasks" to exploit their comparative advantage. In the model, social skills …

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Charter Schools' Effectiveness, Mechanisms, and Competitive Influence

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Parham, Katharine S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper reviews the research on the impacts of charter school attendance on students' academic and other outcomes, the mechanisms behind those effects, and the influence of charter schools on nearby traditional public schools, almost three decades after the first charter school was...

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How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2014

When effort is observable to peers, students may act to avoid social penalties by conforming to prevailing norms. To test for such behavior, we conducted an experiment in which 11th grade students were offered complimentary access to an online SAT preparatory course. Signup sheets differed...

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The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers

Carrell, Scott E. - 2016

A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education. However, there is relatively little evidence on the long-run educational and labor market consequences of childhood peers. We examine this question by linking administrative data on elementary school...

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Charter schools' effectiveness, mechanisms, and competitive influence

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Parham, Katharine S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital

Brown, Christina L.; Kaur, Supreet; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Schooling may build human capital not only by teaching academic skills, but by expanding the capacity for cognition …

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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

Ichniowski, Casey - 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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