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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment
Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - 2009
We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...
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Intelligence, Self-confidence and Entrepreneurship
Asoni, Andrea - 2011
find that individuals with higher measured intelligence and self-confidence are more likely to be entrepreneurs …. Furthermore I present evidence suggesting that intelligence and self-confidence affect business ownership through two different … channels: intelligence increases business survival while self-confidence increases business creation. Finally, once we control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320404
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities
Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas; Öckert, Björn - 2011
We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between fathers and sons using population-wide enlistment data. Measurement error bias in fathers' ability measures is corrected for using two sets of instruments. Results suggest that previous estimates of...
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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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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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Are smarter people really less risk averse?
Sousa, Sergio - 2010
Using hypothetical lottery choices to measure risk preferences, Frederick (2005) finds that higher cognitive ability is associated with less risk aversion. This paper documents, however, that when using an incentive compatible measure of risk preference, attitudes towards risk are not associated...
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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS
Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 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/10010298078
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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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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008
Um Hinweise für die Erträge von Investitionen in die Fähigkeiten von Kindern im Vorschulalter geben zu können, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse von Simulationen zur Diskussion stellen. Der Humankapitalerwerb wird als Funktion von kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten...
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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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