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Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Economics of Education Review, 2022 We examine the effects of secondary education on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using admission cutoffs to general secondary schools. We measure these skills using the Finnish Defence Forces Basic Skills Test, which, due to compulsory military service, covers the vast majority of Finnish men and serves as a strong predictor of later labor market ...
Jani-Petteri Ollikainen +3 more
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Non-cognitive skills mediate education-related polygenic score associations with academic achievement across development [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe role of environmental, developmental, and psychological processes in translating genetic dispositions into observed academic achievement remains under-investigated.
Quan Zhou +8 more
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Japi 2.0, a gaming platform to stimulate cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood: protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Pilot and Feasibility StudiesBackground Mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of illness globally. The importance of psychosocial skills acquired in early childhood, such as executive functions, inhibitory control, emotional regulation, and social problem-solving, in
Jorge Gaete +5 more
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations [PDF]
Journal of Population Economics, 2016 This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background
Silke Anger, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Wage premia for skills: the complementarity of cognitive and non-cognitive skills [PDF]
International Journal of Manpower, 2020 PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to assess the degree of complementarity between cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills, and to evaluate their joint impact on individual wages.Design/methodology/approachThe author uses a survey representative of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of cognitive and non-cognitive ...
Marta, Palczyńska
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Non cognitive skills and childcare attendance [PDF]
Review of Economics of the Household, 2021 In this paper, we analyze the impact of formal childcare attendance at ages 0–2 on children’s attitudes toward schooling and on social behavior at the end of the subjects’ first year of primary school and at the end of high school. We compare children who attended formal childcare with children who were looked after at home, but who otherwise shared ...
Boca D. D., Martino E. M., Pronzato C.
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The non-cognitive skills in international studies: features and critical aspects
Formare, 2023 Over the years, different definitions have accompanied the evolution of the non-cognitive skills concept. In this essay, we will analyse, in particular, their social-emotional dimension, through the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (OECD, 2017 ...
Stefania Nirchi
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Non-cognitive skills and immigrant-native inequalities in the labor market in Europe
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 Non-cognitive skills are increasingly essential in the labor market, especially given technological advances and evolving work environments. Unequal distribution of non-cognitive skills among various groups in the population may contribute to labor ...
Agnieszka Kanas, Menno Fenger
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Agriculture, 2022 Improving the entrepreneurial performance of farmers is conducive to increasing their income, reducing poverty, and securing livelihoods. In the quest for sustainable livelihoods, non-cognitive skills are becoming increasingly significant.
Shasha Zhang +5 more
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Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual’s set of non-cognitive skills. Using the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a subjective question on Life Satisfaction, and three different sets
Budría, Santiago +1 more
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