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Using Goals to Motivate College Students : Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Clark, Damon - 2017
Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and achieve better outcomes? In theory, setting goals … can help present-biased students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on … the causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved …
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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth
Fischer, Greg - 2015
We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457695
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Business Literacy and Development : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico
Calderon, Gabriela - 2013
A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...
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Empirics on the Origins of Preferences : The Case of College Major and Religiosity
Kimball, Miles S. - 2009
in religiosity of students majoring in the social sciences and humanities, but a rise in religiosity for those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463467
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The Making of an Investment Banker : Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
Oyer, Paul - 2006
New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills, it seems likely that any effect of stock returns on MBA placement would be short-lived. In this paper, I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466610
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Making Entrepreneurs : Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
Chioda, Laura; Contreras-Loya, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program for high school students modeled after western business school curricula and adapted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533394
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The Best Business Schools : A Market Based Approach
Tracy, Joseph - 1994
new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality of entering students in an attempt to distinguish value added from … the quality of incoming students. We then rank programs according to value added. Our results are rather surprising. While … rankings since they do not recruit the very top students. We explore the determinants of our value added and student quality …
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Cross-subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis
Artavanis, Nikolaos; Lee, Brian Jonghwan; Panageas, Stauros - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the corporate-loan pricing decisions of a major Greek bank during the Greek financial crisis. A unique aspect of our dataset is that we observe both the interest rate and the "breakeven rate" of each loan, as computed by the bank's own loan-pricing department (in effect, the loan's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172149
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Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?
Kedagni, Desire - 2019
Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do …
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The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2019
of GDP by 2016. Informed by a detailed analysis of macroeconomic patterns in Greece, we estimate a rich dynamic general …
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