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Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Battisti, Michele - 2024

Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers' longer employment interruptions. This...

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The impact of guardian's usage of the Internet on children's cognitive skills

Zhou, Guangsu; Guo, Keyi - In: International studies of economics 18 (2023) 2, pp. 193-210

potentially improve children's academic performance and decrease inequality across regions and generations. …

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Bullying among adolescents : the role of skills

Sarzosa, Miguel; Urzua, Sergio - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 3, pp. 945-980

Bullying cannot be tolerated as a normal social behavior portraying a child's life. This paper quantifies its negative consequences allowing for the possibility that victims and nonvictims differ in unobservable characteristics. To this end, we introduce a factor analytic model for identifying...

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The bilingual gap in children's language, emotional, and pro-social development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Harmon, Colm; Staneva, Anita - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-41

In this paper we examine whether - conditional on other child endowments and family inputs - bilingual children achieve … different language, emotional, and pro-social developmental outcomes. Our data, which allow us to analyze children's development … functions for bilingual children using cumulative value-added specifications, which account for parental investments and …

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Child work and cognitive development : results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 2, pp. 425-465

by controlling for children's complete time allocation budget. This allows us to estimate effects of different types of …

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Housing adequacy and child outcomes in early and middle childhood

Laurence, James; Russell, Helen; Smyth, Emer - 2023

attention has been paid to the experience of children and to the consequences of housing issues for child development …. International research has highlighted a range of effects of poor housing on children. Poor physical housing conditions has been …. Drawing on data from the '08 Cohort of the Growing Up in Ireland study, we explore the housing conditions faced by children in …

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Short-term earnings mobility in the Canadian and German context : the role of cognitive skills

Pullman, Ashley; Gauly, Britta; Lechner, Clemens - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

-year period, the present study examines positional change in Canada and Germany-two contexts typified as examples of liberal and … mobility in Germany once we account for educational credentials. The results also provide evidence on the role of skill demands …

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Do non-cognitive skills produce heterogeneous returns across different wage levels amongst youth entering the workforce? : a quantile mixed model approach

Avanesian, Garen - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 5, pp. 1-20

This study estimates the labor market returns to non-cognitive skills among the youth under 30 years old during the early career stage. Using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE) for 2016 and 2019, it examines the effects of the Big Five personality traits (openness,...

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Complementarities of knowledge worker productivity : insights from an online experiment of software programmers with innovative cognitive style

Pashkevich, Natallia; Haftor, Darek M. - In: Contemporary economics 14 (2020) 2, pp. 236-253

The literature has been inconclusive regarding which factors determine knowledge worker productivity. To remedy that gap, this paper presented an online experiment to measure the productivity of software programmers, as a representative of knowledge workers, in a particular situation when a more...

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Narrative persuasion

Barron, Kai; Fries, Tilman - 2024

We study how one person may shape the way another person interprets objective information. They do this by proposing a sense-making explanation (or narrative). Using a theory-driven experiment, we investigate the mechanics of such narrative persuasion. Our results reveal several insights. First,...

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