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Educational resources distributed via the Internet are rapidly proliferating. One prominent concern associated with these potentially transformative developments is that, as many of the leading technologies of the last several decades have been, these new sweeping technological changes will be...
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will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …
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will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …
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parents' educational attainment with their offspring's. Daughters exhibit more intergenerational persistence than sons. We … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 …
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resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … finds that parents reduce their own efforts as schooling improves, dampening the efficiency of government expenditure …
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parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an … educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and one-on-one phone learning support. We find that offering an … acting as a signal or nudge. These behavioral changes result in lasting learning gains concentrated among richer households …
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This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...
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