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The Returns to Non-Cognitive Skills: A Meta-Analysis
2021This paper discusses the returns to non-cognitive skills based on results of a meta-analysis. The systematic literature review of articles published in the last decade and analysing labour market outcomes and non-cognitive skills allowed us to extract more than 300 estimates linking earnings and non-cognitive skills, most often measured by the Big Five
Cabus, Sofie +2 more
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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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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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Parental health, adolescents’ mental distress and non-cognitive skills
Economics & Human BiologyDrawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental distress and non-cognitive skills development of adolescents; both self-reported and more objectively measured bio-measures are used to capture parental health.
Apostolos Davillas +2 more
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Employers’ skill preferences across Europe: between cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Journal of Education and Work, 2015This article analyses online job advertisements to identify skills that are demanded in selected low- and medium-skilled occupations. We explore data from the publicly administered cross-European EURES job search portal and quantify the different cognitive and non-cognitive skills requested by employers in small European economies.
Lucia Mýtna Kureková +3 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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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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Music Lessons Enhance Non-Cognitive Skills
Music training develops cognitive abilities such as pitch discrimination, memory, and auditory processing. Skills like collaboration, task performance, and engaging with others were the most frequently identified benefits.E Mahiban Ross, D Beula Jeba Malar
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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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Cognitive abilities, non-cognitive skills, and gambling behaviors
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019Abstract This paper examines the effects of cognitive abilities and non-cognitive skills on gambling behaviors in Australia. We use the scores for three cognitive functioning tasks as measures of cognitive abilities. Locus of control and the Big Five personality traits are used as measures of non-cognitive skills.
Xiaodong Gong, Rong Zhu
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