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Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents

Autor: Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Monica P. Bhatt, Philip J. Cook, Jonathan M. V. Davis, Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland G. Fryer, Susan Mayer, Harold Pollack, Laurence Steinberg, Greg Stoddard

Publikováno v: American Economic Review. 113:738-765

Improving academic outcomes for economically disadvantaged students has proven challenging, particularly for children at older ages. We present two large-scale randomized controlled trials of a high-dosage tutoring program delivered to secondary scho

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https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20210434

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Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents

Autor: Jonathan Guryan, George Farkas, Monica P. Bhatt, Laurence Steinberg, Roland G. Fryer, Susan E. Mayer, Philip J. Cook, Kenneth A. Dodge, Jonathan Davis, Harold A. Pollack, Jens Ludwig

There is growing concern that it is too difficult or costly to substantially improve the academic skills of children who are behind in school once they reach adolescence. But perhaps what we have tried in the past relies on the wrong interventions, f

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https://doi.org/10.3386/w28531

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Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Autor: Steven D. Levitt, Roland G. Fryer, John A. List, Anya Samek

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a control

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https://doi.org/10.3386/w27913

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Policing the Police: The Impact of 'Pattern-or-Practice' Investigations on Crime

Autor: Tanaya Devi, Roland G. Fryer

This paper provides the first empirical examination of the impact of federal and state "Pattern-or-Practice" investigations on crime and policing. For investigations that were not preceded by "viral" incidents of deadly force, investigations, on aver

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https://doi.org/10.3386/w27324

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Updating Beliefs when Evidence is Open to Interpretation: Implications for Bias and Polarization

Autor: Matthew O. Jackson, Roland G. Fryer, Philipp Harms

Publikováno v: Journal of the European Economic Association. 17:1470-1501

We introduce a model in which agents observe signals about the state of the world, and some signals are open to interpretation. Our decision makers first interpret each signal based on their current belief and then form a posterior on the sequence of

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https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy025

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Two-Armed Restless Bandits with Imperfect Information: Stochastic Control and Indexability

Autor: Roland G. Fryer, Philipp Harms

Publikováno v: Mathematics of Operations Research. 43:399-427

We present a two-armed bandit model of decision making under uncertainty where the expected return to investing in the “risky arm” increases when choosing that arm and decreases when choosing the “safe” arm. These dynamics are natural in appl

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https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2017.0863

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