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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275906
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228306
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960126
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531658
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329089
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A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Krekel, Christian; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fancourt, Daisy; … - 2021
local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier lives, cost-effectively and at scale? We … conducted a randomised controlled trial of a scalable social-psychological intervention rooted in self-determination theory and … limitations and implications for intervention design, as well as implications for the use of wellbeing as an outcome for public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597593
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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
Dur, Robert; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022
, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351725
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What Works? Interventions Aimed At Reducing Student Dropout in Higher Education
Ibsen, Kristoffer; Rosholm, Michael - 2024
High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533955
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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? : The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261924
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Interactions between workers and the technology of production: evidence from professional baseball
Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - 2007
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather than relying on behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268417