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university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … students' graduation. The paper complements earlier evidence that documented small, short-term impacts on entry into self …
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The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home....
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workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools around the world, forcing school systems and students to quickly attempt … remote learning. A rapid response phone survey of over 1,500 high school students aged 14 to 18 in Ecuador was conducted to … learn how students spend their time during the period of quarantine, examine their access to remote learning, and measure …
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This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in …'s own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test … scores and educational expectations, with a large and sustained impact in test scores among students outside the capital city …
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learning were concentrated among initially better-performing schools and students. At the same time, learning outcomes may have … decreased for schools and students that were lower performing at baseline. Finally, the study finds that incentivizing students …
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