Search Results - subject:"ability"

When do ordinal ability rank effects emerge? : evidence from the timing of school closures

Bertoni, Marco; Parkam, Saeideh - In: Economics of education review 105 (2025), pp. 1-6

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Kognitive Differenzierung und Kollateral-Stratifikation

Esser, Hartmut - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 77 (2025) 2, pp. 215-246

Der Beitrag behandelt die bekannte Frage nach den Effekten der kognitiven Differenzierung auf die Entstehung sozialer Stratifikationen im Bildungserfolg für einen kaum untersuchten Spezialfall: die hier sogenannte Kollateral-Stratifikation als die nur korrelative Kovariation von kognitiver...

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Who benefits more from the digital economy : (non-)cognitive ability and the labor income premium

Ma, Bianjing; Chen, Lei; Wang, Xiaohui; Ding, Song - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 96 (2024) 2, pp. 1-17

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When do ordinal ability rank effects emerge? : evidence from the timing of school closures

Bertoni, Marco; Parkam, Saeideh - 2024

We leverage the timing of pandemic-induced school closures to learn about the emergence of ordinal rank effects in education. Using administrative data from Italian middle schools for four cohorts of students, our study reveals that disrupting peer interactions during the first year of middle...

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When Do Ordinal Ability Rank Effects Emerge? Evidence from the Timing of School Closures

Bertoni, Marco; Parkam, Saeideh - 2024

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Teaming up hinders moving up: team interactions and social mobility

Caicedo, Santiago; Corrales, Alejandro; Guerra, José … - 2026

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Soft Skills, Networks, and the School-to-Work Transition in Rwanda

Brudevold-Newman, Andrew Peter; Ubfal, Diego Javier - 2026

Across many countries, young adults face a persistent skills mismatch, with firms reporting difficulty finding candidates with adequate soft skills. In Rwanda, young women face particularly acute barriers to securing employment. This study evaluates a two-week intensive soft skills training...

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The math-verbal divide : unequal returns to cognitive skills in education and work

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2026

We use population-level administrative data covering secondary school students in England to study how mathematical and verbal skills shape education and labour market outcomes. Following cohorts completing national exams at age 16 through higher education and into employment until age 34, we...

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Cultural governance and earnings quality : the role of corporate values and managerial ability

Arian, Adam; Timilsina, Sabina; Gamage, Pandula; Sands, John - In: Journal of business and socio-economic development 6 (2026) 2, pp. 109-130

likely to engage in earnings manipulation. This inverse relationship is partially mediated by managerial ability …

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Polluting student test performance: School-based evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution

Rubio-Cabañez, Maria; Radl, Jonas - In: Social Science Research 136 (2026), pp. 1-16

, focusing on cognitive ability and cognitive effort. Against the backdrop of mounting environmental concerns and policies … pollution is negatively associated with children’s performance on tests of cognitive ability and cognitive effort, and (ii … measures and cognitive ability, with the strongest association observed between cumulative ozone exposure two months prior to …

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