New paper out in #JDE! "What Matters for the Decision to Study Abroad? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cape Verde" Joint with #DavidCosta @pedrofreitas @gncl_lm #AnaBalcaoReis Read open access: https://t.co/iZjb2Xp5c8

Olatz Roman JMP: "Children, Household Specialization and Relationship Quality" Website: https://t.co/QBbMmlqBQC

O Fiscal Studies vai publicar uma série de artigos sobre desigualdades em 17 países ocidentais, parte da @TheIFS Deaton Review. Fica aqui o artigo sobre 🇵🇹, que será publicado em setembro: Income and wage inequality in democratic Portugal, 1974-2020 https://t.co/leddO4RenK

Excelentes medidas na avaliação externa anunciadas pelo @Educacao_PT : 1. Provas no 4º e 6 comparáveis ao longo do tempo 2. Disciplina rotativa avaliada para além de PT e MAT 3. Escala quantitativa de avaliação 4. Resultados e dados publicados a tempo

One day left on the EAYE schedule. Great session, discussions, and exceptional keynotes. First of all, thank you to all the amazing participants, the real heart of the conference!

📢 Looking forward to a series of insightful sessions, keynote speeches, and networking opportunities from May 23-25 at @PSEinfo! Check out the program for the EAYE Annual Meeting 2024 and plan your schedule now: https://t.co/QK25ssRREl #EAYEAM2024 #Economics #YoungEconomists

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture,” by Andrea Matranga (@andreamatranga):

Wow. "Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope" "We uncover coding errors for about 25% of [econ/ps] studies." "52% of re-analysis effect size estimates are smaller than the original published estimates" https://t.co/0gbFNzy6gn

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors. We summarize our findings below. https://t.co/L2YwDDFMcE

Just published in the AER! Our new paper shows the importance of igniting children's curiosity in the classroom. We show how heightened curiosity boosts knowledge retention and fuels peer learning in the classroom. @EUI_EU @JPAL @BilkentEconDept

🚨🧵📜@davidfromterra, Julien Lafortune and I have a new wp! Perhaps the longest-standing debate in education is on whether money matters. Esp. in the case of capital (building /renovating school facilities), conflicting results have led scholars to conclude that “it depends.”

Accepted paper thread! More informative grades have negative impacts on students’ education outcomes. This is what @jonas_lundstedt and I find in our paper now published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Link: https://t.co/1VwMFzorVb (1/5)

Forthcoming in the AER: "Nurturing Childhood Curiosity to Enhance Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Pedagogical Intervention" by Sule Alan and Ipek Mumcu.

"[U]m sistema de ensino precisa de mecanismos de avaliação externa e interna, transparentes, periódicos e quantificáveis" Infelizmente, temos um sistema pouco transparente e sem possibilidade de comparação ao longo do tempo. Sem boa informação não há boas políticas públicas.

https://t.co/6ImSZc4qbL

2023/24 JOB MARKET CANDIDATE Are teacher grading standards affected by the introduction of high-stakes national exams? @NovaSBE PhD Candidate @PedrolcFreitas exploits a policy reform to address this question. Full paper https://t.co/T8IA2ruuJ7 Website https://t.co/ADlAagOtFA

this week the guardian launched its new european edition with an investigation that found 98% of us live in areas where the air is clogged with more toxic particles than doctors recommend we breathe 1/

Na política educativa, como em muitas outras, é necessário fazer escolhas. Este ensaio é sobre essas escolhas de política pública. Partindo da evidência empírica existente, pretende-se reflectir nos desafios e caminho do sistema de ensino português.

I’m excited to share American Stories, a new billion-scale dataset of structured texts/layouts from public domain newspapers (1780-1960) that we’ve built using our deep learning packages. #EconTwitter (1/13) Paper: https://t.co/15nQ1gZ9E5 Dataset: