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General Education vs. Vocational Training : Evidence from an Economy in Transition
Malamud, Ofer - 2008
This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...
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Long-term Direct and Spillover Effects of Job Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Adriana - 2015
We use administrative data to examine medium and long-term formal education and labor market impacts among participants and family members of a randomized vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia. In the Colombian program, vocational training and formal education are...
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Social experimentation : A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Hausman, Jerry A. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 1985
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Interactions-Based Models
Brock, William - 2000
This paper describes a range of methods which have been proposed to study interactions in economic and social contexts. By interactions, we refer to interdependences between individual decisions which are not mediated by markets. These types of models have been employed to understand phenomena...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470930
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Peer Effects with Random Assignment : Results for Dartmouth Roommates
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2000
This paper uses a unique data set to measure peer effects among college age roommates. Freshman year roommates and dormmates are randomly assigned at Dartmouth College. I find that in this group, peer effects are very important in determining levels of academic effort and in decisions to join...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471307
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Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm
Cook, Philip J. - 2005
A common practice in the fields of education, mental health, and juvenile justice is to segregate problem youths in groups with deviant peers. Assignments of this sort, which concentrate deviant youths, may facilitate deviant peer influence and lead to perverse outcomes. This possibility adds to...
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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief
Akerlof, George A. - 2017
. With such egg-eating bias, false beliefs may not be eliminated by the promotion system. Our main application is to …
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
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The use of sustainability information : empirical evidence from multinational corporations
Gayk, Daniel - 2021
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Pay, Productivity and Management
Bloom, Nicholas; Ohlmacher, Scott; Tello Trillo, Cristina J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and across every percentile … management, suggesting this performance-pay relationship arises from more aggressive monitoring and incentive practices for top …
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