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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills During Adolescence : Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022

Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...

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Reaping the Rewards Later : How Education Improves Old-Age Cognition in South Africa

Nikolov, Plamen; Yeh, Steve - 2022

affects cognition, a component of human capital critical to decision-making, in late adulthood. We show that an extra year of … schooling improves memory and general cognition performance. We detect heterogeneous treatment effects by gender: the effects …-age cognition …

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Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte - 2022

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...

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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages : Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022

ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the … Midlife in United States Development Study Cognition Project …

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Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Ollikainen, Jani-Petteri; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, … - 2022

We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. We measure these skills using the Finnish Defence Forces Basic Skills Test...

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Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes

Botha, Ferdi; Dahmann, Sarah C. - 2022

We provide the first empirical evidence on the direct link between locus of control and self-control, and how they interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are distinct constructs, a greater internal locus of control...

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The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation : Findings from the Field

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022

We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) increases. Our results are taken from a field study of individuals at the very bottom of the income...

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Sources of Wage Growth

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022

This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...

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Birth Weight and Cognitive Development During Childhood : Evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...

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The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 2022

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...

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