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This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
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the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment …, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that … positive correlations between education and labour force transitions are likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of …
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A need exists to understand how people develop an aggressive, retaliatory conflict resolution policy vs. a more passive reconciliation stance. I contribute a choice-theoretic model that explains how cognitive skills drive the transmission of conflict resolution policies. A childメs resolution...
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be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were … hypothesis. However, Protestantsメ education motives went beyond reading the bible …
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This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …
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EPIS is an original and large private-sector program aimed at improving student achievement and eroding early school leaving at Portuguese state schools. The program first screens students to focus only on those more likely to perform poorly; and then conducts a number of small-group sessions...
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Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … education affects individual earnings during the transitional process. We find that education accounts for only a small fraction … education on earnings. More educated people tend to enter state-owned sectors, have a low probability of changing jobs in the …
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