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The Education-Health Gradient : Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Gørtz, Mette; Gensowski, Miriam - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and Locus of Control. Traditional aggregated Big-Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346610
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The education-health gradient : revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and Locus of Control. Traditional aggregated Big-Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311689
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The education-health gradient : revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and Locus of Control. Traditional aggregated Big-Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313664
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Game changer : impact of a reading intervention on cognitive and non-cognitive skills
De Vera, Micole; Garcia-Brazales, Javier; Rello, Luz - 2024
We evaluate a reading intervention involving 600 third-grade students in Chilean schools catering to disadvantaged populations. The intervention features an adaptive computer game designed to identify and improve weaknesses in literacy and cognitive skills, and is complemented by a mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520393
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Wealth disparities for early childhood anthropometrics and skills : evidence from Chilean longitudinal data
Behrman, Jere R.; Palma, Isidora; Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770598
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Wealth disparities for early childhood anthropometrics and skills : evidence from Chilean longitudinal data
Behrman, Jere R.; Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Palma, Isidora - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776674
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Wealth disparities for early childhood anthropometrics and skills : evidence from Chilean longitudinal data
Behrman, Jere R.; Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Palma, Isidora - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936762
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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015
) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494786
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Wealth, Health, and Child Development : Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
Cesarini, David - 2015
) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022846
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Poor health reporting? : using vignettes to recover the health gradient by wealth
Rossouw, Laura; Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries … like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … and correct for reporting heterogeneity in sixteen domains of self-assessed health by wealth and race among elderly South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621489