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 …

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. …

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search assistance or job creation schemes). What has not been examined yet … restrictions in areas with relatively bad labor market conditions generally increase entries into start-up programs as job offers …

. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … impact has been in more disadvantaged schools and on the performance of middle and high ability students within these schools …

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. …