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Preschoolers' self-regulation, skill differentials, and early educational outcomes

Quis, Johanna Sophie; Bela, Anika; Heineck, Guido - 2019

Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence development? We add to previous research by … investigating the relationship between preschoolers' self-regulation and their mathematical competence and its development early in …

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Labor demand shocks at birth and cognitive achievement during childhood

Regmi, Krishna; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2019

As epidemiological studies have shown that conditions during gestation and early childhood affect adult health outcomes, we examine the effect of local labor market conditions in the year of birth on cognitive development in childhood. To address the endogeneity of labor market conditions, we...

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School tracking and development of cognitive skills

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari - 2009

The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...

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Job-worker mismatch and cognitive decline

Grip, Andries de; Bosma, Hans; Willems, Dick; Boxtel, … - 2007

We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people's cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and undereducated workers are less vulnerable. We found that a job-worker mismatch induces a cognitive...

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The role of noncognitive skills in explaining cognitive test scores

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Meijers, Huub (contributor); … - 2006

This paper examines whether noncognitive skills measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We experimentally varied...

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Interpersonal styles and labor market outcomes

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor); … - 2006

This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...

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The stability of big-five personality traits

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2011

We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups. Intra-individual personality change is...

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...

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The long-term impacts of low-achieving childhood peers : evidence from project STAR

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015

This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...

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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...

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