This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a … the training on store- and individual- level productivity. The intervention was more effective in boosting leadership than … findings confirm the possibility of increasing productivity through training targeting critical soft-skills. …

Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training … difference-in-difference strategy. The results indicate large positive effects of the training program on store … increasing productivity through training programs targeting critical skills. …

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 …