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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes

Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020

emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2001

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Earnings over the lifecycle : the Mincer earnings function and its applications

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Decomposition of differences in PISA results in middle income countries

Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - 2014

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition methods in order to identify the role of these factors for...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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Teaching practices and social capital

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011

We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...

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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...

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