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Behavioral economics of education : progress and possibilities

Lavecchia, Adam; Liu, Heidi; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2015

, education has, so far, received less attention - a surprising oversight, given the field's key interest in long-run decision … behavioral economics of education. We first develop a general framework for thinking about why youth and their parents might not … always take full advantage of education opportunities. We then discuss how these behavioral barriers may be preventing some …

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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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From late to MTE : alternative methods for the evaluation of policy interventions

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2016

This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied economist with a solid basic understanding of econometric techniques who would like to use MTE...

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From late to MTE : alternative methods for the evaluation of policy interventions

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2016

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Instrumental variables : an econometrician's perspective

Imbens, Guido - 2014

I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic, applications including supply and demand models and relate them to the recent applications in settings of randomized experiments with...

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