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Origins of adulthood personality : the role of adverse childhood experiences

Fletcher, Jason; Schurer, Stefanie - 2017

We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health - are associated with age 30 personality traits. We use rich longitudinal data from a large, representative cohort of young US Americans and exploit differences across siblings to...

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The creativity premium

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....

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Early childhood care and cognitive development

Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, Matthew - 2020

This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...

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Long-term effects of rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills : evidence from Peru

Pazos, Nicolas; Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan; Scott, Douglas - 2023

Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, harming communities strongly tied to agricultural production, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in life on school achievement tests are...

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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 … background variables. Our results imply a positive association between children's self-regulation and their mathematical … substantially. Heterogeneity analyses indicate that self-regulation benefits children with low initial levels of mathematical …

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A bit of salt, a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2019

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children … in China. Exploiting province and time variation we find strong positive effects on cognition for girls and no effects …

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