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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
Heckman, James J. - 2012
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life.Achievement tests miss, or...
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The Skills to Pay the Bills : Returns to On-the-Job Soft Skills Training
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
We evaluate the causal impacts of on-the-job soft skills training on the productivity, wages, and retention of female garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and communication, and spurred technical skill upgrading. Treated workers were 20 percent more productive...
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Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko - 2022
We randomly assign applicants to over-subscribed programs to study the effects of teaching hard and soft skills in vocational training and examine their impacts on skills and labor market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. We find that providing vocational training that either...
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Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way : Unpacking the Act Exam
Bettinger, Eric - 2011
Colleges rely on the ACT exam in their admission decisions to increase their ability to differentiate between students …
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Raising the Bar for College Admission : North Carolina's Increase in Minimum Math Course Requirements
Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2016
students from 1999 to 2006, we document and exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment … encountered by students. Within an instrumental variables setup, we examine effects of the policy change on students grouped into … deciles defined by their 8th grade math test scores. First, we find that students took more math courses in high school …
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Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores
Clark, Melissa A. - 2010
indicate strong selectivity of test-takers in quot;ACT states,quot; where most college-bound students take the ACT, and much …
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How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?
Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2010
availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a ten-year period allows us to explore them in more detail … effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economics characteristics of students, as measured, for example, by the …
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Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement : An Experimental Evaluation
Kane, Thomas J. - 2009
We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores. Having estimated teacher effects during a pre-experimental period, we used these estimates to predict student...
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Early Admissions at Selective Colleges
Avery, Christopher; Levin, Jonathan - 2021
propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students … who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218397
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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?
Hotz, V. Joseph; Xu, Lixin Colin; Tienda, Marta; … - 2021
This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...
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