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Keep me in, coach : the short- and long-term effects of targeted academic coaching
Canaan, Serena; Fischer, Stefanie; Mouganie, Pierre; … - 2022
To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring …. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively … lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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Immigration policy : methods of economic assessment
DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Trends in absolute income mobility in North America and Europe
Manduca, Robert; Hell, Maximilian; Adermon, Adrian; … - 2020
We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and Canada saw upward mobility rates near 50% for recent...
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Family and career : an analysis across Europe and North America
Guirola, Luis; Hospido, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024
Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30....
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Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023
Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the voyage. In this paper I present new data on the voyage times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the...
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?
McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...
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Leadership and the research productivity of university departments
Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014
Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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Do more educated leaders raise citizens' education?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013
This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...
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