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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765617
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Overconfident boys : the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Jerrim, John Peter; Pingault, … - 2023
confidence of boys but decreases the confidence of girls, not just in mathematics, but also in their self-assessment of other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285838
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Reading to young children : a head-start in life?
Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C. van - 2013
This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these children at least up to age 10 or 11. Our findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753028
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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences
Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012
In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university entrance at age 18) has no effect on risk preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665552
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Fathers and youth's delinquent behavior
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516932
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Inequality during the early years : child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011
the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519857
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Under pressure? : assessing the roles of skills and other personal resources for work-life strains
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ribar, David C.; Western, Mark - 2018
Labour Dynamics in Australia survey to investigate how personal resources in the form of skills, cognitive abilities, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959784
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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
O'Connor, Kelsey J.; Bartolini, Stefano - 2024
Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582279
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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872720
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Child penalties in labour market skills
Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Battisti, Michele - 2024
Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers' longer employment interruptions. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077957