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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …

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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"

Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015

China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic convergence with the most advanced economies and to offset...

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Growth dynamics in regional systems of technological activities : a SVAR approach

Duschl, Matthias; Brenner, Thomas - 2013

This paper analyses the causal relationships in regional technological systems within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. Applying a data-driven identification strategy based on Independent Component Analysis, it shows how the regional growth dynamics of economic, research,...

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

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Attractiveness and efficiency of European universities as hosts for Marie Curie grant holders

Falk, Martin; Hagsten, Eva - 2019

This study provides novel empirical insights into the attractiveness of European Universities for Marie Skłodowska …-Curie Actions (MSCA) grant holders and investigates how efficient universities are in this respect relative their potential. To … from the Times Higher Education database on 390 European universities. Approximately half of the universities hosts MSCA …

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039

Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

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