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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?
Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - 2012
We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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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Further Training and Affective Commitment
Grund, Christian; Titz, Krystina - 2018
We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish between a support effect and a participation effect: On the one hand we analyze how a firm's general support for further training is associated with the affective commitment of their...
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Determinants of employer-provided further training: A multi-level approach
Bellmann, Lutz; Hohendanner, Christian; Hujer, Reinhard - 2010
We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment rate and the regional concentration of an industry against the background of several determinants...
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