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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428915

Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431385

Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500403

Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of schoolattending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329696

Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009619

Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low- education individuals are most likely to … profit from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124700

Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891763

Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895602

Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905178

Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality

Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471875