Search Results - subject:"cognitive abilities"

Early- and later-life stimulation: How retirement shapes the effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2025

on cognitive abilities for individuals in Europe. Besides a direct long-run effect of education, indirect ones may arise … education raises cognitive abilities by about 8 percent. Among the more educated, labor force participation accounts for 36 …

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How did you find your job? : effects of the job search channels on labour market outcomes in Germany

Afonina, Mariya; Zaharieva, Anna - 2025

observable and unobservable characteristics. Using information from a short test of cognitive abilities (symbol digit test) we …

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How did you find your job? Effects of the job search channels on labour market outcomes in Germany

Afonina, Mariya; Zaharieva, Anna - 2025

observable and unobservable characteristics. Using information from a short test of cognitive abilities (symbol digit test) we …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015358792

Early- and later-life stimulation : how retirement shapes the effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2025

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015371899

Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion? A Replication Study of Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Demography, 2014)

Tawiah, Beatrice Baaba; Schiele, Valentin - In: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) 4 (2025), pp. 1-21

This paper replicates the analysis of Schneeweis et al. (2014) using their sample as well as an extended sample. Schneeweis et al. (2014) use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and exploit compulsory schooling reforms implemented in six European countries to...

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Does education improve cognitive performance four decades after school completion? : a replication study of Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Demography, 2014)

Tawiah, Beatrice Baaba; Schiele, Valentin - 2025

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015407984

Effects of retirement on cognitive functioning: Evidence from biomedical and administrative insurance claims data

Bergschneider, Henrik; Kottmann, Robin; Schmitz, Hendrik; … - 2024

We study the effects of retirement on cognitive functioning among women aged 63 to 67 by exploiting a German retirement reform that raised the early retirement age for women born after 1951 by three years, from 60 to 63. Our indicators of cognitive functioning are experimental measures (word...

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Self-learning at the right level, COVID-19 school closure, and non-cognitive abilities

Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Seki, Mai; … - 2024

effective in the short run in improving the cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of disadvantaged students in Bangladesh. We … revisit these students almost six years after the intervention to find that its effects on non-cognitive abilities remain … perceptible, whereas those on cognitive abilities might have been attenuated. This study is among the few to examine the long …

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Effects of retirement on cognitive functioning : evidence from biomedical and administrative insurance claims data

Bergschneider, Henrik; Kottmann, Robin; Schmitz, Hendrik; … - 2024

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The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation : exploring the driving factors

Carrasco, Raquel; González-González, Diego - 2024

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