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A signal of diligence? : student work experience and later employment chances
Baert, Stijn; Rotsaert, Olivier; Verhaest, Dieter; … - 2015
We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium....
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Crowding out in the labour market : do employers lend a hand?
Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects : a randomized field experiment
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; … - 2015
We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post-secondary programs. A third of the students report...
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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223045
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2021
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315659
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship aff ects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237580
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Mentoring and schooling decisions: causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239463
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Mentoring and schooling decisions: causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
,even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low-intensity mentoring … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269722
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children’s educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234470
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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth …: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and post … matters. While encouraging results are found for the younger youth; detrimental long-lived outcomes for males suggest that …
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