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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive skills during adolescence and young adulthood

Anger, Silke - 2012

personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills during Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Anger, Silke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

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Locus of control and low-wage mobility

Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013

We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...

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Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility

Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896228

Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills

Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...

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The impact of education on personality: Evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more agreeable …

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Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?

Cabane, Charlotte - 2010

Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...

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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011

The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...

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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude

Hille, Adrian - 2015

present these programs as innovative policies that are important for the personality development of young children. However …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443152

Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: Evidence from sibling correlations

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...

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