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Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study assesses the effects of education on both job search intensity and re-employment success for unemployed workers. Given that the positive correlation between education and job search intensity or re-employment success is likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of education, we make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371921
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Education, job search and re-employment outcomes among the unemployed
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011
This study assesses the effects of education on both job search intensity and re-employment success for unemployed workers. Given that the positive correlation between education and job search intensity or re-employment success is likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of education, we make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282417
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Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627839
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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Intelligence affects social outcomes of groups. A systematic study of the link is provided in an experiment where two … groups of subjects with different levels of intelligence, but otherwise similar, play a repeated prisoner's dilemma. The … initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959526
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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886141
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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262616
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Initial risk matrix, home resources, ability development and children's achievement
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268670
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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development: evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268796
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Early life adversity and children's competence development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293201
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur? Returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277011