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Individuals invest in Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG)-assets not only because of (higher) expected returns but also driven by ethical and social considerations. Less is known about ESG-conscious investor subjective beliefs about crypto-assets and how these compare to traditional assets....
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Teachers are the most fundamental input of students' learning. For this reason, developing teaching skills is a policy priority for most governments around the world. We experimentally evaluate the effectiveness of "Let's All Learn to Read," a one-year professional development program that...
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This paper studies whether school-based financial education has spillover effects from children to parents. Leveraging …
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Using data from a randomized controlled trial in 300 public high schools in Peru, this paper studies the potential of school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students’ and teachers’ financial knowledge by 0.14 SD and 0.32 SD, respectively. The impact of...
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Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that improve outcomes not well-measured by test scores. To shed...
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preschool children over the summer break in Peru. In response to learning losses during school closures induced by COVID-19 …
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Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development … the development of emotional and cognitive skills in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the … Developmental Milestones Checklist for children of caregivers with the lowest level of parental investment at the baseline. Our …
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