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mentoring treatment had three additional pre-tenure coauthors, 1.6 more pre-tenure publications and 43 additional citations to …
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one branch of the experiment assigned a random subset of new hires to mentors (Broad-Mentoring), whereas a second branch … (Selective-Mentoring) gave new hires the opportunity to opt into a mentoring relationship before assigning a random subset to … mentors. In the Broad-Mentoring branch, mentored sales agents outperformed non-mentored agents by over 18% in the first six …
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for high school graduation are imprecise. The treatment effects do not appear to be the result of a generic "mentoring …
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College attendance has increased significantly over the last few decades, but dropout rates remain high, with fewer than half of all adults ultimately obtaining a postsecondary credential. This project investigates whether one-on-one college coaching improves college attendance and completion...
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structured student monitoring and mentoring program called Check & Connect (C&C). We carried out a large-scale randomized …
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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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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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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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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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Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. 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...
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