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College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not succeed in college is that they lack key information about how to be successful or fail to act on the information that they have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment...
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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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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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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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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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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 … Economics Association. To our knowledge, this is the first randomized trial of a mentoring program in academia. We evaluate the …
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initial ability by acquiring specific human capital in mentoring interactions with upper level employees. We assume that an … entry-level worker receives more mentoring when a greater proportion of upper-level workers match the entry-level worker … as to maximize the effectiveness of future mentoring. We derived conditions under which firms attain full diversity, as …
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Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support …
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initiating conversations with students and working to establish trust are important design features to incorporate in future …
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Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of externalities that otherwise lock in a low-income equilibrium, but runs afoul of well-known government failure problems. Successful Big Push coordination may occur instead when a...
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