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Impact of Home Computers on the Academic Achievement of Low-Income Children in the United States
Researchers analyzed the impact of a program that provided students in California with a home computer on students’ academic achievement. The program had no effect (either positive or negative) on any educational outcome, including grades, standardized test scores, and attendance.
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Youssef Assarssah
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Arthur Bluche
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Impacts of Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training in the United States
Subsidizing entrepreneurship training in the United States did not improve access to training services or promoted employment among groups affected by discrimination.
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Using Job Search Contracts to Help Job Seekers Return to Work in Germany
Researchers partnered with the German Federal Employment Agency to evaluate the impact of these contracts on job search behavior and employment outcomes. The contracts accelerated job finding when introduced early in the unemployment spell rather than later, but were only effective among less employable job seekers.
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Gabriel Mendes Bergamaschi
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Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Ricardo Perez-Truglia is a Professor of Economics and Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. In 2020, he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to revolutionize their fields...
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Roland Rathelot
Roland Rathelot is a Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Economie Statistique (CREST). His areas of interest include labor economics, public economics and economics of immigration, with a particular focus on the spatial dimension. He is currently conducting randomized evaluations of counseling...
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Vincent Pons
Vincent Pons is the Byron Wein Professor of Business Administration in the Harvard Business School’s Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. He studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how to make rights and services more accessible to...
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Silvia Prina
Silvia Prina is a Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on understanding the behavior of the poor for the purpose of uncovering potential strategies to improve their lives. Silvia studies the impact of financial access on the welfare and decision-making of the poor...
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Martin A. Rossi
Martín Antonio Rossi is Professor of Economics at Universidad de San Andres. His research focuses on the intersection between development economics, political economy, and public economics. Past studies have examined wealth and politics, public service incentives, political effort, and labor market...
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Christopher Roth
Christopher Roth is a Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Cologne. His research areas include psychology and economics, political economy, and macro-expectations.
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Heather Royer
Heather is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests focus on health, public economics, and labor economics. Currently, Heather is studying education’s causal effects on health and fertility, as well as the effects of information and incentives...
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