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. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest … a unique two-sided belief-elicitation survey, we confirm that firms and jobseekers have over-optimistic expectations …
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under debate. Retention may aect learning, cognitive and psychologicalcapacities, educational attainment and the lifetime … short and the long run. Third, inducesparents to increase parental time investments and expectations. Fourth, enhances … studentpsychological traits, and overall learning experience. …
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these interactions, there are learning spillovers: coworkers learn general skills from each other that increase future … their own education. Next, I show that learning spillovers are empirically relevant. Using matched administrative data from …
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This paper provides evidence on the long run relationship between European settlers presence and education levels in Algeria. To correct for endogenous sorting of settlers (and natives) into regions I rely on the fact that proximity to the Mediteranean coast determined the timing of conquest and...
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Emotional Material Learning, 2) Digital Individual Learning and 3) Practice as usual. The scale was developed in a series of …
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During the past decade there has been a growing opinion of including more than an income perspective in the examination of inequality. As a result a broad theoretical literature on the subject of multidimensional inequality is present. This can mainly be divided into three different parts:...
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Voting is a fundamental human right. Yet, individuals that are younger than 18 do typically not have this right since they are considered uninformed. However, recent evidence tentatively suggests that the political knowledge of youths is endogenous to the voting age. I test for the existence of...
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In 2001, the Swedish system of student aid for college students was substantially reformed; the grant-share of the total aid was increased, students were allowed to earn more without a reduction in student aid, and the repayment schedule of the loans was significantly tightened. In this paper, we...
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This working paper comments on Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider's 'Bond Positions, Expectations, and the Yield …
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This paper implements a structural model of the yield curve with data on nominal positions and survey forecasts. Bond prices are characterized in terms of investors' current portfolio holdings as well as their subjective beliefs about future bond payoffs. Risk premia measured by an...
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