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Self-perceptions about academic achievement : evidence from Mexico City

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2020

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...

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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success

Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children’s socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...

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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success

Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175897

Personality, IQ, and lifetime earnings

Gensowski, Miriam - 2014

education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … generation, which results in important heterogeneity of the net present value of education. Personality traits directly affect …, education and personality skills do not always raise the family earnings of women in this cohort, as women with very high …

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Advisor value-added and student outcomes : evidence from randomly assigned college advisors

Canaan, Serena; Deeb, Antoine; Mouganie, Pierre - 2019

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor quality on student outcomes. To do so, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college. We find that higher advisor value-added (VA)...

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Effects of peer groups on the gender-wage gap and life after the MBA : evidence from the random assignment of MBA peers

Thomas, Mallika - 2024

study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …

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Alternative measures of teachers' value added and impact on short and long-term outcomes : evidence from random assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

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STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a...

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Alternative measures of teachers' value added and impact on short and longterm outcomes : evidence from random assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

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The role of information in the application for merit-based scholarships : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Herber, Stefanie P. - 2015

If information asymmetries prevent talented students of non-academic backgrounds from applying for merit-based aid, the full potential of qualified youth will not be unfolded and social selectivity is likely to corroborate. This paper analyzes whether information asymmetries exist and decrease...

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