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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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La Meglio Gioventù : earnings gaps across generations and skills in Italy
Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - 2014
skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350381
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Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion
Wedel, Katharina - 2024
achievement. Chapter 3 examines dropout from a mentoring program designed to help disadvantaged adolescents and analyzes a program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490033
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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
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342692
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The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectations and occupational choice strategies
Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016 - This draft: September 22, 2016
, however has not been identified empirically. I suggest that employment during adolescence promotes the formation of character …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554485