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We conduct a laboratory experiment on the determinants of beliefs about own and others' ability across different domains. A preliminary look at the data points to two distinct forces: miscalibration in estimating performance depending on the difficulty of tasks and gender stereotypes. We develop...
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The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...
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We investigate a novel determinant of household financial delinquency, namely, people's subjective expectations regarding the cost-benefit trade-off in default decisions. These expectations are determined by individuals' self-efficacy, which is a non-cognitive ability that measures how strongly...
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Evidence from social psychology suggests that agents process information about their own ability in a biased manner. This evidence has motivated exciting research in behavioral economics, but has also garnered critics who point out that it is potentially consistent with standard Bayesian...
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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 use detailed program data to examine the relationship between …
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-message coaching program – in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing …
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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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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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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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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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