games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

impact of mindfulness meditation on academic performance through a randomized evaluation of a well-known 8-week mindfulness …, such as performance. We address this question through a field experiment in an educational setting. We study the causal … and non-cognitive skills. However, it takes time before students' performance can benefit from mindfulness meditation: we …

records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

students' performance, especially in math. This effect is seen not only for students taught by teachers the year of their …

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD … focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. …