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Integrating personality psychology into economics
Heckman, James J. - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280682
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The Remarkable Unresponsiveness of College Students to Nudging and What We Can Learn from It
Oreopoulos, Philip; Petronijevic, Uros - 2019
some improvement from coaching-based interventions on mental health and study time, but none of the interventions we … plan to, though our interventions do not alter this tendency. The coaching interventions make some students realize that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059190
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Subjective performance evaluation and inequality aversion
Grund, Christian; Przemeck, Judith - 2008
Many firms use subjective performance appraisal systems due to lack of objective performance measures. In these cases, supervisors usually have to rate the performance of their subordinates. Using such systems, it is a well established fact that many supervisors tend to assess the employees too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268730
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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269569
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When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country
Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannú; Intriago, Ruthy; … - 2022
Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been … proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. We designed a coaching program that focused on one aspect … child development and learning. We implemented the coaching program in Ecuador, with 100 1st grade teachers randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882597
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Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
Balliauw, Matteo; Verheuge, Marco; Baert, Stijn - 2022
One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882600
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Private Tutoring: Evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2015
Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring involve two decisions: a) whether to take private tuition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481669
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Private Tutoring: Evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring involve two decisions: a) whether to take private tuition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125862
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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278194
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills - personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329163