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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success
Sorrenti, Guiseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …
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Training, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment
Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019
This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a large Latin American retailer. The identification exploits an experimental design in the context of a difference-in-difference strategy. Using longitudinal information obtained...
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Beyond qualifications : returns to cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Colombia
Acosta, Pablo; Muller, Noël; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...
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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2019
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...
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Human capital development: new evidence on the production of socio-emotional skills
Mitchell, Mark; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2020
We estimate a dynamic model of multidimensional human capital development from childhood through adolescence and into early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures of cognitive and socio-emotional skills and a latent factor structure to estimate flexible skills...
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Different degrees of skill obsolescence across hard and soft skills and the role of lifelong learning for labor market outcomes
Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We build on findings showing that different skill types have structurally different depreciation rates. We differentiate between occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills. To...
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Sex-differences in language and socio-emotional skills : evidence from large scale studies of very young children
Bando Grana, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016
This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …
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Inequality in socio-emotional skills : a cross-cohort comparison
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Blundell, Richard W.; Conti, Gabriella - 2020
We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour and identify two dimensions of socio-emotional skills: 'internalising'...
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Training and changes in job tasks
Tamm, Marcus - 2018
This study investigates the impact of non-formal training on job tasks of workers. The analysis is based on panel data from Germany covering detailed information on tasks performed at work at the level of individual workers. The results indicate that after training workers are more engaged in...
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Technological change and returns to training
Klauser, Roman; Tamm, Marcus - 2023
Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this potential heterogeneity of returns based on panel data from Germany that provide a unique measure for individuals' adoption of new technology at the workplace. In the preferred...
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