I put together a shortish list of funders in education, including those that fund work for those without PhDs (mainly PhD student diss fellowships). Let me know if you have anything you'd like to add to the list!
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After US colleges began admitting female students, their faculty started doing more research related to women and girls.
cc @ashleyywong@FrancescaTruffa
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.@FrancescaTruffa & @ashleyywong are super productive scholars with an exciting research agenda on gender in the labor market. JMP #1 is on the glass ceiling: Having more female MBA classmates helps women's careers, in part b/c they're steered toward female-friendly firms. 1/2
Good morning Job Market Candidates, I would like to help by promoting your Job Market Paper. To participate record a 2min video of you JMP and upload here https://t.co/r5qS64ysTU (by 10/31). I will tweet out the videos that I receive starting next week.
In the latest issue of JPAM: "The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program" by @GuryanJonathan, Christenson, @DrAshleyCureton, Lai, @profjensludwig, Schwarz, Shirey, & Turner.
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Research by @GuryanJonathan and his colleagues shows that a mentoring program aimed at improving school attendance & academic outcomes decreased student absences in grades 5–7 by 4.2 days or 22.9%, but it did not improve student attendance in grades 1–4. https://t.co/Ctkm7QSXel
.@GuryanJonathan finds that @SagaEducation tutoring, which costs $3,500–4,300 per student, doubles, or even triples, how much math students learn in a year, for roughly one fifth of the average cost of schooling per pupil per year. #WorkingPaperWednesday
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Ohio’s $1 Million Lottery For Vaccinated Adults Draws On Behavioral Economics via @forbes
Yep. @GuryanJonathan & I also noticed the link between this prize-linked-vaccination program & the prize-linked savings programs we've studied.🙂
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A study of @SagaEducation’s high-dosage tutoring in Chicago high schools found students making huge improvements in both math test scores and course grades https://t.co/n0aDGMrlid
Researcher @MonicaPBhatt on Chicago tutoring program that significantly lifted math performance for high schoolers: “I think our study shows that it's not too late to intervene, and in fact you can do so very successfully." @The74 https://t.co/dxeTtBBjKm