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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 … dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents´ later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor …-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by half a standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500403
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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 … dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents' later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor …-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by half a standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431385
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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 schoolattending adolescents from … dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents' later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor …-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by half a standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329696
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A model about the impact of ability grouping on student achievement
Kiss, David - 2017
This paper presents a small theoretical model to compare school systems that segregate students by ability ('tracking') with comprehensive ones, which allow for mixing of differently skilled students into same classes. The outcomes of interest are the achievement levels of weaker and better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715851
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Improving school-to-work transitions in New Zealand
Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2013
outcomes. These initial educational handicaps show up in higher drop-out rates and youth joblessness, greatly limiting these … the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231025
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011
Are home computers are an important input in the educational production function? To address this question, we conduct a field experiment involving the provision of free computers to schoolchildren for home use. Low-income children attending middle and high schools in 15 schools in California...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118535
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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes
Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019
We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993979
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447269
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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mother Tongue-Based Education on Reading Skills and Early Labour Market Outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128091