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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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Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Stokes, Lucy - 2015

This paper uses linked employer-employee data to investigate the relationship between employees' subjective well-being and workplace performance in Britain. The analyses show a clear, positive and statistically-significant relationship between the average level of job satisfaction at the...

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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits : do they work? ; if so, at what level do they work best?

Spencer, Marilyn K.; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015

This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time faculty and staff members at a public university in the United States, we study the impact of this...

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What is a good job?

Eichhorst, Werner; Wozny, Florian; Mähönen, Erno - 2015

After the apparent rise of so‐called atypical and 'precarious' jobs, the quality of employment has become of interest because such employment relationships are often related to objectively or subjectively worse working conditions. In this paper we look in detail into what is known about job...

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Racial harassment, job satisfaction and intentions to quit : evidence from the British nursing profession

Shields, Michael; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2000

This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find that nearly 40% of nurses have experienced racial harassment from work colleagues, whilst more...

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Sex, race, and job satisfaction among highly educated workers

Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean - 2015

There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...

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Job satisfaction and employee turnover : a firm-level perspective

Frederiksen, Anders - 2015

In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...

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Improving nurse retention in the British National Health Service : the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit

Shields, Michael; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2000

In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...

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