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The effect of a social experiment in education

Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the …

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Variation of learning intensity in late adolescence and the impact on noncognitive skills

Büttner, Bettina; Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011

Despite the interdependence between cognitive and noncognitive skills, empirical studies have shown a longer period of acquisition in life-time for the latter besides relevance for educational and labor market success. Analyzing returns of investments during different periods of life is...

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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico

Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021

This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021

Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...

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Informing students about college : an efficient way to decrease the socio-economic gap in enrollment : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina; Zambre, Vaishali - 2018

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family …

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More than Sheepskin : A Natural Experiment on College and Earnings

Justicz, Timothy; Phipps, Aaron; Price, Joseph - 2023

Evidence shows college increases earnings, but little causal evidence distinguishes whether these earnings come through human capital gains or from the signal a college degree sends. We use the unique situation created by the First World War, where several cohorts of West Point cadets were...

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Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion

Wedel, Katharina - 2024

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

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The effects of chess instruction on academic and non-cognitive outcomes : field experimental evidence from a developing country

Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Nicholas, Aaron - 2019

We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken by primary school students in a developing country context. We examine the effects on academic outcomes, and a number of non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience,...

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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects

List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019

We estimate the direct and spillover effects of a large-scale early childhood intervention on the educational attainment of over 2,000 disadvantaged children in the United States. We show that failing to account for spillover effects results in a severe underestimation of the impact. The...

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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes

Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020

emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …

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