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Education, Intelligence and Diseases in Old Age

Niccodemi, Gianmaria - 2018

education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role … measurement system using IQ tests to identify latent intelligence. Educational choices, surviving up to old age and medication use … all depend on observed individual factors and on latent intelligence. Based on the estimation results, we derive the …

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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather - 2011

relationships differs for men and women, however. Non-cognitive skills (intelligence and impulsivity) also influence movement into …

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Household Choices and Child Development

Del Boca, Daniela - 2010

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of...

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Intra-Household Resource Allocation : Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?

Frijters, Paul - 2010

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings in the NLSY. To overcome endogeneity issues we use sibling differences in handedness as an...

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Investing in Our Young People

Cunha, Flávio - 2010

This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...

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The GED

Heckman, James J. - 2010

The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health Among 450,000 Swedish Men

Lundborg, Petter - 2010

The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...

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Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development : Evidence from Children in the NLSY

Johnston, David W. - 2010

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts. The health measures cover both physical and mental health,...

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Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

Cunha, Flávio - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...

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