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On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills: What is being measured and why it matters

Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016

measured into underlying personality traits and economic preferences. We demonstrate that the construction of the non …

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive skills during adolescence and young adulthood

Anger, Silke - 2012

personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills during Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Anger, Silke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

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Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility

Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...

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Locus of control and low-wage mobility

Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013

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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills

Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...

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The impact of education on personality: Evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more agreeable …

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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude

Hille, Adrian - 2015

present these programs as innovative policies that are important for the personality development of young children. However …

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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution

Collischon, Matthias - 2017

effects of certain personality traits (agreeableness, neuroticism and risk taking) across the wage distribution for full …

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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: Evidence from sibling correlations

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...

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