, such as performance. We address this question through a field experiment in an educational setting. We study the causal … impact of mindfulness meditation on academic performance through a randomized evaluation of a well-known 8-week mindfulness … and non-cognitive skills. However, it takes time before students' performance can benefit from mindfulness meditation: we …

Building on job matching theory, we model the effect of collective turnover on workplace performance as the total of … turnover level. The resulting theoretical turnover-performance relationship is generally curvilinear, nesting all the hitherto …

reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age … players do. The effect of temperature on performance is smaller when there is more at stake. Our findings also suggest that …

We investigate the impact of a change in the gender composition of the pool of candidates on the academic performance …. Our results reveal that in the absence of men, women exhibit enhanced performance, particularly in subjects where men do …, where men do not typically outperform. The improvement in performance stems from both increased attempts at questions and a …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …

games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …

fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …