Hunger and malnourishment can adversely affect students' performance by lowering their effort and cognition during … classroom. Using individual level data on the performance of students in a cognitive task both before and after the extension of … cognitive performance of students by 13% to 16%. This result is robust to unobserved heterogeneity in school quality and student …

fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …

startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … performance outcomes we consider are involuntary exit, above–average employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent … predict startup performance with either high or very high accuracy with the exception of high returns on assets where …

We investigate the impact of a change in the gender composition of the pool of candidates on the academic performance …. Our results reveal that in the absence of men, women exhibit enhanced performance, particularly in subjects where men do …, where men do not typically outperform. The improvement in performance stems from both increased attempts at questions and a …