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field experiment in which we sent 1,248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants …
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university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … students' graduation. The paper complements earlier evidence that documented small, short-term impacts on entry into self …
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Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and … about their students' reading achievements by using a randomized controlled trial. We find that the teachers' baseline … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …
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field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students … for the majority of disadvantaged students targeted by the policy, by mitigating so-called "discouragement effects." The …
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field experiment, I expose more than 5,000 German students either to general information on federally funded scholarships or …If information asymmetries prevent talented students of non-academic backgrounds from applying for merit-based aid, the … whether information asymmetries exist and decrease students’ likelihood to apply for merit-based scholarships. In a randomized …
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experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a …
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experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a …
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. This article investigates whether students' responsiveness to information on income returns relates to gender differences … students in Berlin (Germany), starting one year before high school graduation. Our intervention comprised information on major …-specific returns to college and was provided to students in randomly selected schools. By comparing the major-specific application …
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a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received …
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