Search Results - subject:"Non cognitive skills"

Long-term effects of cognitive skills, social adjustment and schooling on health and lifestyle: Evidence from a reform of selective schooling

Jones, A.; Rice, N.; Rosa Dias, P. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010

Members of the National Child Development Study (NCDS) cohort attended very different types of secondary school, as their schooling lay within the transition period of the comprehensive education reform in England and Wales. This provides a natural setting to explore the impact of educational...

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Do sporty people have access to higher job quality?

Cabane, Charlotte - 2010

signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it is known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in … people - ceteris paribus - have access to higher quality of job thanks to the non-cognitive skills they have or they are …

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How do shocks to non-cognitive skills affect test scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - 2009

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The height premium in earnings: the role of physical capacity and cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009

height premium by about 80 percent. By also accounting for cognitive and non-cognitive skills, we are able to explain the …

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Targeting non-cognitive skills to improve cognitive outcomes: evidence from a remedial education intervention

Holmlund, Helena; Silva, Olmo - 2009

A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people …' non-cognitive skills as a way to improve educational achievements. In this paper, we shed light on this issue by studying … educational trajectories. The main peculiarity of this intervention is that it solely targets students' non-cognitive skills such …

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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

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The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

height premium by about 80 percent. By also accounting for cognitive and non-cognitive skills, we are able to explain the …

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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 … suggest that teachers might increase their students' performance by interventions to their non-cognitive skills. Inference is … Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores? IZA DP No. 4222 June 2009 Stefanie Behncke How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive …

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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention

Holmlund, Helena; Silva, Olmo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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