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Homo reciprocans : survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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Psychological momentum and gender

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016

We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...

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The city as a self-help book : the psychology of urban promises

Cardoso, Rodrigo V.; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017

Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...

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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 … of teacher quality-teacher-child interactions - that researchers in education and psychology have argued is critical for …

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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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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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