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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan - 1998
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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Does Mentoring Increase the Collaboration Networks of Female Economists? An Evaluation of the CeMENT Randomized Trial
Ginther, Donna K.; Na, Rina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
publications and the likelihood that they were tenured in top 50 economics departments. This paper examines one potential mechanism …
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Treatment and Selection Effects of Formal Workplace Mentorship Programs
Sandvik, Jason; Saouma, Richard; Seegert, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
While formal mentorship programs are ubiquitous, less is known about who gains from receiving mentorship. In this paper, we report the outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) carried out in a US-based inbound sales call center where one branch of the experiment assigned a random subset of...
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The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes : A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program
Guryan, Jonathan - 2020
In response to budget problems, many urban school systems reduced resources for getting students to come to school, like truancy officers. Chicago, for instance, went from 150 truancy officers down to, in 1991, a total of zero. Is that a good idea? We explore here the effects of increased...
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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial
Ginther, Donna K. - 2020
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 … 30 or 50 in economics in the world …
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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the American … Economics Association. To our knowledge, this is the first randomized trial of a mentoring program in academia. We evaluate the … participants, the results suggest that this type of mentoring may be one way to help women advance in the Economics profession and …
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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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Not Too Late : Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
Guryan, Jonathan; Ludwig, Jens; Bhatt, Monica P.; Cook, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
There is growing concern that it is too difficult or costly to substantially improve the academic skills of children who are behind in school once they reach adolescence. But perhaps what we have tried in the past relies on the wrong interventions, failing to account for challenges like the...
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 2017
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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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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