Productivity Versus Motivation in Adolescent Human Capital Production: Evidence from a Structurally-Motivated Field Experiment
Productivity Versus Motivation in Adolescent Human Capital Production: Evidence from a Structurally-Motivated Field Experiment
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青少年人力资本生产的生产力与动机：来自结构性动机实地实验的证据
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.3714023
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
Sutanuka Roy
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作者：
Christopher S. Cotton;Brent R. Hickman;J. List;Joseph Price;Sutanuka Roy
We leverage a field experiment across three distinct school districts to identify key pieces of a structural model of adolescent human capital production. Our focus is inspired by the contemporary psychology of education literature, which expresses learning as a function of the ratio of the time spent on learning to the time needed to learn. By capturing two crucial student-level unobservables—which we denote as academic efficiency (turning inputs into outputs) and time preference (motivation)—our field experiment lends insights into the underpinnings of adolescent skill formation and provides a novel view of how to lessen racial and gender achievement gaps. One general insight is that students who are falling behind their peers, whether correlated to race, gender, or school district, are doing so because of academic efficiency rather than time preference. We view this result, and others found in our data, as fundamental to practitioners, academics, and policymakers interested in designing strategies to provide equal opportunities to students.
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6.6
作者：
Wang, Ming-Te;Degol, Jessica
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Degol, Jessica
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2015
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作者：
Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Lawrence Katz
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Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Lawrence Katz