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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940286
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Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147855
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Are females scared of competing with males? : results from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013
We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental design was aimed at disentangling gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224592
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The impact of self-selection on performance
Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803276
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of primary school. We focus on pupils' development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106956
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961949
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Yes, you can! : effects of transparent admission standards on high school track choice : a randomized field experiment
Keller, Tamás; Takács, Károly; Elwert, Felix - 2021
High school track choice determines college access in many countries. We hypothesize that some qualified students avoid the college-bound track simply because they overestimate admission requirements. To test this hypothesis, we designed a randomized field experiment that communicated the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582493
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Disrupting education? : experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, … - 2017
outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602559
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The impact of working memory training on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills
Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020
question of whether working memory (WM) training can improve them is of considerable importance. However, whether WM training … leads to improvements in these far-transfer skills is contested. Here, we examine the causal impact of WM training embedded … document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236361
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2015
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of primary school. We focus on pupils’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170345