Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance
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Keywords
performance; mental health; education; meditation; field experiment;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2022-12-12 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2022-12-12 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2022-12-12 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2022-12-12 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-URE-2022-12-12 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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