This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child …

investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child’s noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child’s health … by 0.64 percent at the age of 3-18 months. Until the age of 42 months a one percent increases in child's noncognitive …

offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child’s cognitive, mental and emotional skills as … important implications for the quality of the parent-child relationship. -- cognitive skills ; noncognitive skills ; critical …

using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), making particular use of the mother and child questionnaires. These … measures. The results indicate significant relationships between parental and child health in the first and third year of life …