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home-based online education by exploiting data from two waves of voluntary online surveys. Students with the highest …
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Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. However, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries, and little is known about the use of hybrid interventions (which combine in-person and remote...
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effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …
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Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are systematically biased. We investigate whether student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school...
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Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether they are systematically biased. We investigate whether student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297639
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor quality on student outcomes. To do so, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college. We find that higher advisor value-added (VA)...
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Gender-matching school environments may provide benefits for girls to enhance their performance. By using PISA data … from South Korea, this paper suggests that the effects of single-sex schooling and a student-teacher's gender matching are … heterogeneous across different student groups. The gender-matching school environments are most positive to non-cognitive outcomes …
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This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women …'s standardized college admission tests amended the language used in its exams, making test language more gender neutral. We find that … the change to a more gender-neutral language was associated with a significant improvement in the performance of women on …
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The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a...
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While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively … little attention paid to subsequent study decisions of graduates. Given the increased importance of graduate education in … Ireland to study these choices. We find systematic and substantial differences by gender in choice of graduate field, even …
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