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When promising interventions fail: personalized coaching for teachers in a middle-income country
Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, Yyannú; Intriago, Ruthy; … - 2022
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 …
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Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?
Balliauw, Matteo; Verheuge, Marco; Baert, Stijn - 2022
One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club’s first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...
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The remarkable unresponsiveness of college students to nudging and what we can learn from it
Oreopoulos, Philip; Petronijevic, Uros - 2019
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 …
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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...
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Private tutoring : evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2015
Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring involve two decisions: a) whether to take private tuition...
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Subjective performance evaluation and inequality aversion
Grund, Christian (contributor); Przemeck, Judith (contributor) - 2008
Many firms use subjective performance appraisal systems due to lack of objective performance measures. In these cases, supervisors usually have to rate the performance of their subordinates. Using such systems, it is a well established fact that many supervisors tend to assess the employees too...
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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the impact of such programs, and the factors that influence...
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
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How does job coaching help disability insurance recipients work while on claim?
Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022
mental conditions. The program is characterized by a "work-first" approach, which includes intensive job coaching and follow …
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Mentoring and schooling decisions: causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the...
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