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initial ability by acquiring specific human capital in mentoring interactions with upper level employees. We assume that an … entry-level worker receives more mentoring when a greater proportion of upper-level workers match the entry-level worker … as to maximize the effectiveness of future mentoring. We derived conditions under which firms attain full diversity, as …
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We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess whether these coaches are rewarded for the academic performance of their players in promotion and retention decisions. We find that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as...
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structured student monitoring and mentoring program called Check & Connect (C&C). We carried out a large-scale randomized …
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Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support …
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While much has been written about the potential benefits of mentoring in academia, very little research documents its … effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the … Economics Association. To our knowledge, this is the first randomized trial of a mentoring program in academia. We evaluate the …
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Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but we … know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which … adopted a nationally recognized mentoring program in 2004. I use detailed program data to examine the relationship between …
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College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not succeed in college is that they lack key information about how to be successful or fail to act on the information that they have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment...
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for high school graduation are imprecise. The treatment effects do not appear to be the result of a generic "mentoring …
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mentoring treatment had three additional pre-tenure coauthors, 1.6 more pre-tenure publications and 43 additional citations to …
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one branch of the experiment assigned a random subset of new hires to mentors (Broad-Mentoring), whereas a second branch … mentors. In the Broad-Mentoring branch, mentored sales agents outperformed non-mentored agents by over 18% in the first six … (Selective-Mentoring) gave new hires the opportunity to opt into a mentoring relationship before assigning a random subset to …
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