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Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection

Social Science Research Network
A vast scholarship questions whether voters are sufficiently informed to act in their best interest at the polling booth, which may also have implications for the quality of political representation.
M. Jokela, Jaakko Meriläinen, Janne Tukiainen, Åsa von Schoultz   +3 more
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Non-Cognitive skills and the growing achievement Gap⋆

, 2020
In this study, I apply a developmental perspective to examine the relationship between non-cognitive skills and the growing SES achievement gap over one’s early life course.
Airan Liu
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Screening and Signaling Non-Cognitive Skills: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Economic Journal, 2019
We study how employers and job-seekers respond to credible information on skills that are difficult to observe, and how this affects matching in the labor market.
V. Bassi, Aisha Nansamba
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Non-cognitive predictors of academic achievement: Evidence from TIMSS and PISA

Learning and Individual Differences, 2018
We examined the predictability of non-cognitive variables for students' mathematics achievement, based on large-scale international databases of the TIMSS 2003, 2007, and 2011, and the PISA 2003 and 2012.
Jihyun Lee, L. Stankov
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Predicting college success: the importance of ability and non-cognitive variables

International Journal of Educational Research, 2001
Abstract This chapter introduces a study which focuses on predicting college success as measured by students’ grade point averages (GPAs). The chapter also reviews prior research related to various types of predictors. Specifically, two categories of predictors are identified: ability measures and non-cognitive variables.
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How Do Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities Influence Stock Market Participation?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
[enter Abstract Body]We study how cognitive and non-cognitive abilities influence stock market participation and what distinguishes investors from non-investors. Combining five datasets enables to observe the effect of mental abilities in the finest detail.
Tarvo Vaarmets, Kristjan Liivammgi, TTnn Talpsepp   +2 more
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Non-cognitive Ability, College Learning, and Student Retention

, 2022
John Gray, Omari H. Swinton
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Parental non-cognitive abilities and child mental health

Journal of Asian Economics, 2023
Yao Wang, Chunchao Wang, Rui Zhang
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The Effect of Non-cognitive Ability on Salary: Based on the Mincer Equation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Big Data Economy and Digital Management, 2022
ChongYu Li, YingGe Du
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The effects of class size on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities(in Japanese) [PDF]

, 2013
The trend towards class size reduction has accelerated over the last decade. However, it is not clear whether small class sizes actually increase the quality of education enough to justify the downsizing cost. This paper intends to capture the effects of class size by using an education production function and by estimating the effects focusing on the ...
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