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systems. In this study, we ask if high-stakes testing affects school-related stress among students and if there are gender …-reported school-related stress by almost 10 % of a standard deviation. This is primarily driven by a strong effect for girls, meaning … that high-stakes testing increases the gender gap in school-related stress. The results are robust to a range of …
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I investigate possible explanations for work intensification, using four British data sets. I conjecture that an important source of work intensification is effort-biased technical change (EBTC), which enhances the productivity of high effort workers relative to that of low effort workers. EBTC...
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Effort-biased technological change and other explanations for work intensification are investigated. It is hypothesised that technological and organizational changes are one important source of work intensification and supportive evidence is found using establishment data for Britain in the...
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