Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program

We evaluate how the impact of a mentoring program in French disadvantaged high schools varies with the intensity of the program. Given that, in general, the only significant effect was observed by full attendance to all meetings, we argue that the treatment dose matters. Thus, whil...

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Autores principales: Montes Rojas, Gabriel, Chiodi, Vera
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP UBA-CONICET) 2022
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Tutorías
Tratamiento
Abandono escolar
Mentoring
Treatment effects
Dropout
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2444
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spelling I28-R145-2444_oai2025-02-11 Montes Rojas, Gabriel Chiodi, Vera 2022-11-27 We evaluate how the impact of a mentoring program in French disadvantaged high schools varies with the intensity of the program. Given that, in general, the only significant effect was observed by full attendance to all meetings, we argue that the treatment dose matters. Thus, while the original evaluation program was designed as a randomized experiment to balance control and treated individuals (those who were offered the mentoring scheme, with different degree of program participation), we motivate the use of continuous and multi-valued treatment effects models to estimate the dose response function. The program shows that information about prospective labor market opportunities feeds back positively into academic performance. However, it has a negative effect on job self-esteem, suggesting that acquiring information on job market prospects updates students’ priors on their skills and possibilities and that the students might be updating rationally. Se evalúa el impacto de un programa de tutoría en escuelas secundarias francesas y cómo varía con la intensidad del programa. Dado que, en general, el único efecto estadísticamente significativo corresponde a los que atienden todas las sesiones, se argumenta que la dosis del tratamiento importa. Así, mientras el programa original estaba pensado como un experimento aleatorio para balancear grupo de control y tratamiento, motivamos el uso de modelos de tratamiento multivariado y continuo para estimar la función de dosis. El programa muestra información de potenciales trabajadores y afecta positivamente la performance escolar. Sin embargo, tiene un efecto negativo sobre la auto-estima, lo que sugiere que al adquirir información sobre el mercado de trabajo los estudiantes actualizan su evaluación de sus propias habilidades y posibilidades en forma racional. application/pdf https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2444 eng Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP UBA-CONICET) https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2444/3191 Derechos de autor 2022 Documentos de trabajo del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política Documentos de trabajo del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política; Núm. 65 (2021): Programas de tutoría como un tratamiento dosificado: la frecuencia importa; 1-45 Working Papers series at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política; No. 65 (2021): Mentoring as a dose treatment: frequency matters; 1-45 2451-5728 Tutorías Tratamiento Abandono escolar Mentoring Treatment effects Dropout Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program Programas de tutoría como un tratamiento dosificado: la frecuencia importa: Evidencia de un programa de tutoría francés info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=dociiep&d=2444_oai
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topic Tutorías
Tratamiento
Abandono escolar
Mentoring
Treatment effects
Dropout
spellingShingle Tutorías
Tratamiento
Abandono escolar
Mentoring
Treatment effects
Dropout
Montes Rojas, Gabriel
Chiodi, Vera
Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program
topic_facet Tutorías
Tratamiento
Abandono escolar
Mentoring
Treatment effects
Dropout
description We evaluate how the impact of a mentoring program in French disadvantaged high schools varies with the intensity of the program. Given that, in general, the only significant effect was observed by full attendance to all meetings, we argue that the treatment dose matters. Thus, while the original evaluation program was designed as a randomized experiment to balance control and treated individuals (those who were offered the mentoring scheme, with different degree of program participation), we motivate the use of continuous and multi-valued treatment effects models to estimate the dose response function. The program shows that information about prospective labor market opportunities feeds back positively into academic performance. However, it has a negative effect on job self-esteem, suggesting that acquiring information on job market prospects updates students’ priors on their skills and possibilities and that the students might be updating rationally.
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title Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program
title_short Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program
title_full Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program
title_fullStr Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program
title_full_unstemmed Mentoring as a continuous treatment: Frequency matters: Evidence from a French mentoring program
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publisher Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP UBA-CONICET)
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url https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2444
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