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program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly …
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This paper estimates the difference in academic performance of the oldest and youngest students in a given grade. We employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for the years 2008-2016. Academic performance is measured by...
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principals to align schools' policies and practices with what is believed to generate better test results. We use responses from … both public and private schools to a custom-built questionnaire administered to principals before (2009) and after (2012 …
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Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring …
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schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …
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We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from …-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by half a standard … mentors as attachment figures who provide guidance for the future. The mentoring is not effective for higher-SES adolescents …
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To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring … evidence that coaching/mentoring may have substantial long-run effects as we document significant gains in lower …
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We study the impact of a personalized mentoring program on university enrollment choices and academic outcomes …
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the...
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We use panel data models to examine variations and changes in faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The share of part-time faculty among total faculty has continued to grow during the last two decades, while the share of full-time lecturers and...
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