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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478496
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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo - 2017
This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958079
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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo - 2016
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978953
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Biased teachers and gender gap in learning outcomes: evidence from India
Rakshit, Sonali; Sahoo, Soham - 2021
We investigate the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on the learning outcomes of secondary school students in India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other characteristics in academic performance. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517231
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Learning at home: distance learning solutions and child development during the COVID-19 lockdown
Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305932
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Biased teachers and gender gap in learning outcomes : evidence from India
Rakshit, Sonali; Sahoo, Soham - 2020
This paper investigates the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on learning outcomes of secondary school students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other characteristics in academic performance. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297372
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Learning at Home : Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development During the COVID-19 Lockdown
Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2022
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084084
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Modeling learning traits and team performance with knowledge application : training and education for engineering work teams
Lin, Chieh-Peng; Lu, Kuan-Chen - In: Journal of engineering and technology management : JET-M 64 (2022), pp. 1-12
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The learning economy and embodied knowledge flows in Great Britain
Tomlinson, Mark - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999) 4, pp. 431-451
British labour market between 1980 and 1992. Following a discussion of the learning and knowledge economy, cross …-sectional employment data are analysed to ascertain which occupations can be classified as knowledge-based. Longitudinal career history … data are then used to trace the flows of these `knowledge workers' over time. Sectoral shifts are examined, with a …
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