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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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Locus of control and low-wage mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322841
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292383
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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital
Leeds, Michael A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if participating in sports is an investment good as well as a...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368338
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Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?
Cabane, Charlotte - 2010
Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600950
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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601023
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443152
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011467775
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707828