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The impact of peer personality on academic achievement

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …

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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?

Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022

We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...

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Impatience Among Preschool Children and Their Mothers

Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother’s impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs...

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No evidence that siblings' gender affects personality across nine countries

Dudek, Thomas; Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Feld, Jan; Rohrer, … - 2022

Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive … analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative …, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control, and the Big …

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A stylized satellite account for human capital

Liu, Gang - 2015

This paper presents a satellite account in which investment in human capital is considered as a produced product/asset. It is not the education sector but the individual person taking education or training/courses that is the genuine producer of human capital. The former only provides education...

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Gender segregation in education and its implications for labour market outcomes: Evidence from India

Sahoo, Soham; Klasen, Stephan - 2018

This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the postsecondary level of schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there...

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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’...

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Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017

Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...

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The impact of working memory training on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills

Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020

Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation abilities. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals'...

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Noncognitive Skills in Economics : Models, Measurement, and Empirical Evidence

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Thiel, Hendrik - 2018

consideration of personality traits in the economic literature has started and substantially contributes to narrow the gap of …

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