Search Results - subject:"Non cognitive skills"

Del Boca, Daniela; Martino, Enrica Maria; Meroni, Elena … - 2019

A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children cognitive and non-cognitive development in the short and medium run, and on a number of educational, labor market, and life outcomes in the long run. These studies agree in...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Early Track Assignment on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019

Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission thresholds, we estimate the cognitive and non-cognitive...

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Sources of ethnicity differences in non-cognitive development in children and adolescents

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2019

to compare the non-cognitive skills of children of Asian immigrants and children of native-born Australian parents and … seek to understand the evolution of non-cognitive skills. We find large differences in non-cognitive skill development … non-cognitive skills vary significantly by informants of non-cognitive skills, types of non-cognitive skills and children …

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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Brixiová, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2019

non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … complements, tertiary education can act as a channel that makes training effective. Regarding non-cognitive skills, evidence shows … incorporating tertiary education and entrepreneurial training programs focused on a balanced set of skills, including non-cognitive …

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A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life: Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2019

for boys. For non-cognitive skills we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender …

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Top of the class: The importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019

between learning and non-cognitive skills mechanisms, finding support for the latter. …

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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? Evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects

List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019

We estimate the direct and spillover effects of a large-scale early childhood intervention on the educational attainment of over 2,000 disadvantaged children in the United States. We show that failing to account for spillover effects results in a severe underestimation of the impact. The...

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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Said, Mona - 2019

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Explaining gender gap variation across assessment forms

Graetz, Georg; Karimi, Arizo - 2019

In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males outperform females on the Swedish SAT by the same magnitude. We establish that GPAs capture different attributes and skills compared to SAT scores. Differences in motivation and...

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Child's socio-emotional skills : is there a quantity-quality trade-off?

Briole, Simon; Le Forner, Helène; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2019

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