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Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

An empirical pilot in assessing student teachers' biography and instructional beliefs

Koch, Alexander F.

In: Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. The beauty and pleasure of understanding : engaging with contemporary challenges through science education, 2020, p. 1749-1756

Switzerland is undergoing a curricular change. Curriculum 21 has been ratified by all 21 German-speaking and is currently being implemented. With this innovation, German-speaking Switzerland will move toward a more technology-oriented education. What has been Manual Training or Wood/ Metalwork Classes is now replaced by composite subjects such as Nature and Technology. These subjects now...

Université de Fribourg

Direct and Indirect Effects based on Changes-in-Changes

Huber, Martin ; Schelker, Mark ; Strittmatter, Anthony

In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2019, p. 1-60

We propose a novel approach for causal mediation analysis based on changesin- changes assumptions restricting unobserved heterogeneity over time. This allows disentangling the causal effect of a binary treatment on a continuous outcome into an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable (called mediator) and a direct effect running via other causal mechanisms. We identify...

Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

Qui sont les élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers ? La part d'aléatoire du signalement pour une mesure d'aide renforcée de pédagogie spécialisée dans un canton suisse = Who are the students with special educational needs? The random share of reporting for a measure of enhanced support for special education in a Swiss canton

Noël, Isabelle. HEP Fribourg / PH Freiburg

In: ALTER. European Journal of Disability research, 2021, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 153-164

In this article, we begin by questioning the notion of special educational needs, which is used today in Switzerland, by going back over its historical foundations and developing the main issues and problems it raises. We then present the results of a comprehensive research aimed at uncovering the factors at work in the process of designating certain students for an enhanced special...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Robots and nonparticipation in the US : where have all the workers gone?

Lerch, Benjamin

This paper analyzes the impact of one of the leading automation technologies of the last decades, industrial robots, on the declining labor force participation in the US. Exploiting exogenous variation in the adoption of robots across local labor markets and over time, I find that, on average, one additional robot drives two workers out of the labor force. Despite the adverse impact of robots,...

Université de Fribourg

Competing Institutional Logics and Paradoxical Universalism : School-to-Work Transitions of Disabled Youth in Switzerland and the United States

Tschanz, Christoph ; Powell, Justin J. W.

In: Social inclusion, 2020, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 155-167

Disablement is a complex social phenomenon in contemporary societies, reflected in disability policies oriented towards contrasting paradigms. Fraught with ambivalence, disability raises dilemmas of classification and targeted supports. Paradoxical universalism emphasizes that to achieve universality requires recognizing individual dis/abilities and particular contextual conditions and barriers...

Université de Fribourg

Direct and indirect effects based on changes-in-changes

Huber, Martin ; Schelker, Mark ; Strittmatter, Anthony

(Working Papers SES ; 508)

We propose a novel approach for causal mediation analysis based on changes-in- changes assumptions restricting unobserved heterogeneity over time. This allows disentangling the causal effect of a binary treatment on a continuous outcome into an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable (called mediator) and a direct effect running via other causal mechanisms. We...

Université de Fribourg

An introduction to flexible methods for policy evaluation

Huber, Martin

(Working Papers SES ; 504)

This chapter covers different approaches to policy evaluation for assessing the causal effect of a treatment or intervention on an outcome of interest. As an introduction to causal inference, the discussion starts with the experimental evaluation of a randomized treatment. It then reviews evaluation methods based on selection on observables (assuming a quasi-random treatment given observed...

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Andorno, Roberto

In: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2014, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 167-167