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Entrepreneurship, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Education
2018The factors influencing entrepreneurship have been widely studied. The debate has focused on the dichotomy between personality characteristics and the influence of their experiences or the contexts in which entrepreneurs operate. Contextual conditions play an important role in promoting entrepreneurship but entrepreneurs are the critical entity of the ...
José Guilherme Leitão Dantas +1 more
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The effect of parental smoking on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Economics & Human Biology, 2021Economic research emphasises the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in children for long-term labour market, health and social outcomes. In contrast to previous studies that focus on the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy, we contribute to the literature by examining whether parental current smoking impacts on children's ...
Preety, Srivastava, Trong-Anh, Trinh
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Measurement of Non-Cognitive Skills and Their Impact
Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public MediaAs research on human capital shifts from cognitive abilities to non-cognitive skills, the role of these skills in education and the labour market has become increasingly prominent, making accurate measurement of them of great significance. This paper examines the measurement of non-cognitive skills by employing a literature review and comparative ...
Tianran Fu, Zhengyuemeng Lei
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Non-cognitive skills as predictors of academic performance
2022ABSTRACTThe 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) emphasized that students, regardless of group membership, should graduate ready for college or work. The economic impact of not being ready is significantly negative. Non-cognitive skills (NCSs) assessments have been used to identify students at risk and intervene to help prevent undesirable outcomes.
Juliana Cerentini Pacico +6 more
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The Economics of Non-Cognitive Skills
2014Non-cognitive skills, defined as individual differences that are independent of cognitive ability, are used within economics and policy to understand and improve labor market outcomes and reduce anti-social behavior. These measures are now being used in sub-Saharan Africa to capture “softer” outcomes of interventions with young people in particular ...
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Insights and Development of Non-cognitive Skills
2020A substantial body of research indicates that non-cognitive skills predict a wide range of life outcomes, including academic and educational achievement, labor market outcomes, health, and criminality (Kautz et al., Fostering and measuring skills: Improving cognitive and non-cognitive skills to promote lifetime success (IZA Discussion Papers, No. 8696).
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The question of non-cognitive skills and the “cheetah’s coat” perspective
Book of Proceedings. ATEE Spring Conference 2024. Teacher education research in Europe: trends, challenges, practices and perspectivesThe most recent scientific debates on teaching and learning challenges grant much attention to training non-cognitive skills, as they are considered more functional than cognitive ones for both effective daily-life management and academic and professional success. However, current theories about non-cognitive skills seem to have failed to recognize how
Sara Nosari, Emanuela Guarcello
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Parenting Styles, Socioeconomic Status and (Non-)Cognitive Skills
2022This paper analyzes the role of parenting styles, a recent topic in the economic literature. Using a novel latent class model, we investigate which parenting styles can be observed in the data and how parenting styles are related to parents' socioeconomic status and household composition. We identify four parenting styles.
Kugler, Philipp +2 more
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Non-Cognitive skills and the growing achievement Gap⋆
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2020Abstract 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. Using data from Early Childhood Longitudinal Program (ECLS-K), I investigate whether and to what extent non-cognitive skills account for the growing achievement ...
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Questioning the Sense of “Non Cognitive Skills”
2023Recently, “non-cognitive” skills have been taken into serious consideration by the Italian legislature, so named by the bill approved by the Chamber of Deputies on January 11, 2022 and aimed at enabling them “in the educational and didactic activities of state and equal school institutions of every order and grade”. In critically asking ourselves, with
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