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The American family in black and white: A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality

Heckman, James J. - 2011

In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do...

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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,...

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Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers

Gibbs, Michael - 2005

Personnel records are used to examine compensation, recruitment, and retention of a group of very highly skilled workers: civilian scientists and engineers in U.S. Department of Defense laboratories. In contrast to the private sector, returns to skills were largely flat for this group from...

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Racial harassment, job satisfaction and intentions to remain in the military

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2005

Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening racial incidents or career-related discrimination. Racial harassment significantly increases job...

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Identification problems in personality psychology

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - 2011

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...

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Two economists' musings on the stability of locus of control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2011

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...

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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...

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Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making

Chen, Xi - 2018

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution,...

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Education, Intelligence and Diseases in Old Age

Niccodemi, Gianmaria; Bijwaard, Govert - 2018

education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role … measurement system using IQ tests to identify latent intelligence. Educational choices, surviving up to old age and medication use … all depend on observed individual factors and on latent intelligence. Based on the estimation results, we derive the …

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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

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