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Hard evidence on soft skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2012
; achievement tests ; IQ ; cognition …
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Fostering and measuring skills : improving cognitive and non-cognitive skills to promote lifetime success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; Weel, Bas ter; … - 2014
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221678
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What grades and achievement tests measure
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016
Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580913
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Political ideology, mood response, and the confirmation bias
Dickinson, David L. - 2022
The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive discomfort. Hearing rival viewpoints or belief-opposing information creates cognitive dissonance, and so avoiding exposure to, or discounting the validity of, dissonant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286207
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes (contributor); Marklein, Felix (contributor) - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716538
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Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time : evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - 2013
and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition - episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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Use it or lose it : Irish evidence
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2016
. As retirement is potentially endogenous with respect to cognition, instrumental variable (IV) methods are also used. The … estimations are used, the effect of retirement on cognition is negative but statistically insignificant. Differences between OLS …
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
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