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document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation...
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light on the underlying mechanisms, we also examine children's time use and interpersonal relationships. We find evidence of … compensatory investment in cognitive skills by younger children, however, they are also more likely to have poor …
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document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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document that 3–4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … background variables. Our results imply a positive association between children's self-regulation and their mathematical … substantially. Heterogeneity analyses indicate that self-regulation benefits children with low initial levels of mathematical …
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We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different educational attainment. In a second step we also investigate this effect for three different child age cohorts. Past research shows that the degree of success in the labour market is...
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-13 months. Finally, we document that 3–4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 …
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document that 3–4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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