This paper presents compelling anecdotal evidence from two cohorts of graduate students introduced to spatial reasoning through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Outcomes of a case-study assigned in prior cohorts showed marked improvement in depth of understanding of three key...

Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a setting where students are randomly assigned to a university...

The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...