the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant …

Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been … proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. We designed a coaching program that focused on one aspect … child development and learning. We implemented the coaching program in Ecuador, with 100 1st grade teachers randomly …

some improvement from coaching-based interventions on mental health and study time, but none of the interventions we … plan to, though our interventions do not alter this tendency. The coaching interventions make some students realize that …

differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize … their commuting time, employees do not minimize their commuting time because they lack full information, and thus the … difference between the time devoted to commuting by self-employed workers and employees is modeled as wasteful commuting (i …

many supervisors tend to assess the employees too good (leniency bias) and that the appraisals hardly vary across employees …