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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 …

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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

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 …

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Female classmates, disruption, and STEM outcomes in disadvantaged schools : evidence from a randomized natural experiment

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2023

Recent research has shown that females make classrooms more conducive to effective learning. We identify the effect of a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the...

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Female classmates, disruption, and STEM outcomes in disadvantaged schools : evidence from a randomized natural experiment

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2023

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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, R.G. - 2017

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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