Search Results - subject:"Non cognitive skills"

Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2008

Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered skills or alternative routes to acquiring skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of...

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Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

numeracy in line with a standard human capital explanation or from non-cognitive skills such as socialization or discipline … skills may include more advanced cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills such as socialization or discipline skills … skills or non-cognitive skills and the “production” of signaling. Empirically, the results are consistent with the advanced …

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Sweden’s school choice reform and equality of opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students’ and schools’ locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This...

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Healthy habits: The connection between diet, exercise, and locus of control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 98 (2014) C, pp. 1-28

This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals’ locus of control and their decisions to exercise regularly, eat well, drink moderately, and avoid tobacco. Locus of control is a psychological concept reflecting individuals’ beliefs about the extent to which life's outcomes are...

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Sweden's school choice reform and equality of opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 129-142

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had differential effects for students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This...

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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; Weel, Bas ter; … - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2014

IQ tests and achievement tests do not capture non-cognitive skills — personality traits, goals, character and … skills are highly malleable. During the adolescent years, non-cognitive skills are more malleable than cognitive skills. The … model of skill development. Many effective programs work because they foster non-cognitive skills. Some have annual rates of …

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Healthy habits : the connection between diet, exercise, and locus of control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Schurer, Stefanie - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 98 (2014), pp. 1-28

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Unemployment duration and sport participation

Cabane, Charlotte - In: International journal of sport finance 9 (2014) 3, pp. 261-280

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Do youth mentoring programs change the perspectives and improve the life opportunities of at-risk youth? : while most effects are positive, they tend to be modest and fade over time : in addition, some mentoring programs can backfire

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2014

Mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America have been providing positive role models and building social skills for more than a century. However, most formal mentoring programs are relatively novel and researchers have only recently begun to rigorously evaluate their impact on...

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Sweden's school choice reform and equality of opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 129-142

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