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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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Something in the pipe : Flint water crisis and health at birth
Wang, Rui; Chen, Xi; Li, Xun - 2021
effect on the length of gestation or rate of prematurity. However, these effects are larger among children born to black … mothers, as indicated by an increase in the rate of LBW by 2.5 percentage points (or 19 percent). Children born to white … channel of mortality selection. However, we observe a slight decline in the sex ratio among children born to black mothers …
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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of … primary school children. We conducted a field experiment that randomly provided a one-year supply of DFS at a subsidized price … not translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the heterogeneity in …
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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates : the role of personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022
It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that non-cognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and...
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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)
Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017
We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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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
Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that additional resources would ease work-family constraints, theory and evidence regarding resources have been equivocal. This study uses data on working mothers and fathers - as well...
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Can non-cognitive skills programs improve achievement? : quasi-experimental evidence from EPIS
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
Do investments in soft skills pay off in terms of student achievement? This paper evaluates a large private-sector program in this area, EPIS, based on individual and small-group sessions of mediators that seek to improve the non-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness)...
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference
Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021
adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in academic achievement and cognitive skill measures. We highlight … harsh parenting as a novel channel of birth order effects, in which earlier-born children are less likely to be physically …
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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?
Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021
We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...
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