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neighborhoods with schools that have 1.5 percentage point higher proficiency rate on state exams. We use data from the experiment to …
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first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students …There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational … attending a large community college in Northern California were randomly selected to receive free computers and were followed …
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field experiment, I expose more than 5,000 German students either to general information on federally funded scholarships or …
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a field experiment involving the provision of free computers to schoolchildren for home use. Low-income children …Are home computers are an important input in the educational production function? To address this question, we conduct … attending middle and high schools in 15 schools in California were randomly selected to receive free computers and followed over …
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backgrounds remain underrepresented in higher education around the world. This study sheds light on whether the provision of …-class presentation on the benefits and costs of higher education as well as on possible funding options for college education. We …
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Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in earnings and wealth, given the higher average level of...
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We combine a field experiment with structural estimation to study skill formation in the adolescent years. By … novel aspects of the education production function. First, we document evidence of strong self-productivity in cognitive … executive functioning skills, and that the technology of skill formation itself is impacted by our treatments. We estimate …
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with heterosexual couples. We conduct a field experiment with schools during the children's pre-registration period. We …
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Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and high socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the effect of combining increased instruction time with information to teachers about their students' reading achievements by using a...
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Parents can play a crucial role in children's learning, particularly when children are out of school or during times of school closures. In this study, we evaluate the impacts of two distance educational interventions, which directly involved parents and were delivered via basic mobile phones,...
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