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Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

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The education-innovation gap

Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …

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Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Spain

McGowan, Muge Adalet; San Millán, Juan Antona - 2019

barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …

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Worker productivity during Covid-19 and adaptation to working from home

Burdett, Ashley; Etheridge, Ben; Tang, Li; Wang, Yikai - 2023

We examine reported productivity changes of workers over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, which we validate against external metrics. On average, workers report being at least as productive as before the pandemic's onset. However, this average masks substantial heterogeneity, which is linked...

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Intensive math instruction and educational attainment : long-run impacts of double-dose algebra

Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Nomi, Takako - 2014

We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069

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 backgrounds remain underrepresented in higher education around the world. This study sheds light on whether the provision of information in a randomized controlled trial with...

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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes

Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019

We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....

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Does universal preschool hit the target? : program access and preschool impacts

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2017

Despite substantial interest in preschool as a means of narrowing the achievement gap, little is known about how particular program attributes might influence the achievement gains of disadvantaged preschoolers. This paper uses survey data on a recent cohort to explore the mediating influence of...

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