Search Results - subject:"Non cognitive skills"

Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?

Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022

We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...

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Relationship stability: Evidence from labor and marriage markets

Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - 2022

Behavior in labor and marriage markets follows similar structures when it comes to commitment to long-term relationships. We argue that there is a joint social skill driving stability in both markets. Applying a grouped fixed-effect estimator on data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and...

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The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Vu, Khoa - 2022

program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non-cognitive … skills for those students. The program's impacts on non-cognitive skills also seem to have dissipated in the long-term. … skills are sizable and significant for ethnic minority students, although there seems to be little gender difference. The …

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Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT

Schlosser, Analia; Shanan, Yannay - 2022

The long-term unemployed sometimes lack basic soft skills needed to enter and succeed in the labor market. We examine whether it is possible to develop or enhance these skills among adults by using a large-scale randomized control trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of an Active Labor...

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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores: evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Bartolini, Stefano; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...

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Personality traits and academic performance : evidence from college students in Brazil

Mello, Marcelo de Albuquerque e; Coelho, Christiano Arrigoni - In: Revista brasileira de economia de empresas 22 (2022) 1, pp. 5-20

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Impact of COVID-19 school closures on the cognitive and non-cognitive skills of elementary school students

Asakawa, Shinsuke; Ōtake, Fumio - 2022

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The impact of centre-based childcare on non-cognitive skills of young children

Morando, Greta; Platt, Lucinda - 2022

The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational … new evidence on whether the use of centre-based childcare (CBC) in infancy and early years promotes non-cognitive skills …

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Cohort at risk : long-term consequences of conflict for child school achievement

Jürges, Hendrik; Stella, Luca; Hallaq, Sameh; Schwarz, … - In: Journal of population economics : international … 35 (2022) 1, pp. 1-43

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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Bartolini, Stefano; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

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