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Balboni, Clare; Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To test between these two views, we exploit a large-scale,...

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The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in England

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Whitfill, Parker J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is the impact of warfare on inequality and the social contract? Using local data on bombing, the evolution of wealth inequality and vote shares for the Labour Party in England around World War II we establish two results. First, on average, we find no impact of bombing on inequality....

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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019

The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and...

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The Impact of Diversity on Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution

Londoño Vélez, Juliana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Does diversity affect people's perceptions of income distribution and their preferences for redistribution? I leverage variation from a Colombian financial aid reform boosting the share of low-income students at an elite university. Combining college records and original survey data, I study how...

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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

mentoring treatment had three additional pre-tenure coauthors, 1.6 more pre-tenure publications and 43 additional citations to …

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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

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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The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes : A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program

Guryan, Jonathan - 2020

structured student monitoring and mentoring program called Check & Connect (C&C). We carried out a large-scale randomized …

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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial

Ginther, Donna K. - 2020

Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support …

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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial

Blau, Francine D. - 2010

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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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 use detailed program data to examine the relationship between …

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