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What grades and achievement tests measure

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the … correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades … than IQ of a variety of important life outcomes. Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of …

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Hard evidence on soft skills

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 4, pp. 451-464

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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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School-track environment or endowment : what determines different other-regarding behavior across peer groups?

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Games and economic behavior 94 (2015), pp. 122-141

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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014

In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...

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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2014

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The effects of personality and IQ on portfolio outcomes

Firth, Chris; Stewart, Neil; Antoniou, Constantinos; … - In: Finance research letters 51 (2023), pp. 1-8

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Dinner table human capital and entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K.; Oyer, Paul E. - 2018

intelligence: higher-IQ entrepreneurs are less likely to follow their fathers. Third, an entrepreneur that starts a firm in the …

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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background

Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019

Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...

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Same-sex role model effects in education

Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...

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