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The Effects of Student Coaching in College : An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Mentoring
Bettinger, Eric - 2011
have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment which tests the effectiveness of individualized student coaching …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … be attending the university one year after the coaching had ended. Coaching also proved a more cost-effective method of …
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Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations : Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011
This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today Coaches Poll of top 25 teams. The Poll provides a unique empirical setting that overcomes many of the challenges inherent in conflict of interest studies, because many agents are...
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008
Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but we know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which adopted a nationally recognized mentoring program in 2004. I...
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 2017
We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that supervisors vary widely in how they rate subordinates of similar quality. To...
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Academics vs. Athletics : Career Concerns for NCAA Division I Coaches
Avery, Christopher; Cadman, Brian D.; Cassar, Gavin - 2021
We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess whether these coaches are rewarded for the academic performance of their players in promotion and retention decisions. We find that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as...
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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
Blau, Francine D.; Currie, Janet; Croson, Rachel T. A.; … - 2021
While much has been written about the potential benefits of mentoring in academia, very little research documents its effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics...
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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher; Zemsky, Peter B. - 2021
This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial
Ginther, Donna K.; Currie, Janet; Blau, Francine D.; … - 2021
Women continue to be underrepresented in academic ranks in the economics profession. The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support women in research careers. The program was designed as...
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Student Coaching : How Far Can Technology Go?
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2016
Recent studies show that programs offering structured, one-on-one coaching and tutoring tend to have large effects on … whether the effects of coaching programs can be replicated at scale by using technology to reach a larger population of …; and (iii) a personal coaching service, in which students are matched with upper-year undergraduate coaches. We find large …
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
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