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Hard evidence on soft skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 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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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction
Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480821
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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221678
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Child development and parental investment : introduction
Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 126 (2016) 596, pp. 1-27
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What grades and achievement tests measure
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016
Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580913
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Fostering and measuring skills : improving cognitive and non-cognitive skills to promote lifetime success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; Weel, Bas ter; … - 2014
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457900
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The non-market benefits of education and ability
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746765
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The nonmarket benefits of education and ability
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 12 (2018) 2, pp. 282-304
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Early skill formation and the efficiency of parental investment : a randomized controlled trial of home visiting
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 45 (2017), pp. 40-58
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The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores
Hansen, Karsten T. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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