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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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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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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
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/10013246897
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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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/10013248659
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...
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This paper studies the relationship between the creative abilities of study peers and academic achievement. We conduct a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first...
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Under-participation in selective universities lowers social mobility in England, the United States, and elsewhere. English universities have standardized tuition costs, and strongly heterogeneous graduate earnings. Attending a selective university is therefore strongly incentivized, yet...
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We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life …
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