What is Meaningful to Students When Considering a Company - Are There Preferences Based on Ethnicity and Gender?

[Excerpt] With a growing emphasis on diversity hiring for a more holistic organization, companies are advocating for diversity-consciousness. Students, in particular, are the main source of raw talent, coming in to an organization with fresh perspectives, adept academically with the current trends. In the research presented, we find that representation in leadership, perceptions of self-efficacy, equal opportunities, and mentorship greatly influence diverse students in making career and employment decisions

The Atlanta Empowerment Zone: Description, Impact, and Lessons for Evaluation

This report analyzes the impact of the Atlanta Empowerment Zone on resident outcomes

A Non-Experimental Evaluation of Curriculum Effectiveness in Math

We use non-experimental data from a large panel of schools and districts in Indiana to evaluate the impacts of math curricula on student achievement. Using matching methods, we obtain causal estimates of curriculum effects at just a fraction of what it would cost to produce experimental estimates. Furthermore, external validity concerns that are particularly cogent in experimental curricular evaluations suggest that our non-experimental estimates may be preferred. In the short term, we find large differences in effectiveness across some math curricula. However, as with many other educational inputs, the effects of math curricula do not persist over time. Across curriculum adoption cycles, publishers that produce less effective curricula in one cycle do not lose market share in the next cycle. One explanation for this result is the dearth of information available to administrators about curricular effectiveness