skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take … the shape of the skills distribution into account when designing interventions in order to most efficiently raise teachers …

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …

that constraints in both time and (non-)cognitive skills of the parents restrict their choice. We find that children …’s skills, in particular non-cognitive skills, are strongly associated with the parenting style. Parenting styles that are … associated with low household income and having more than one child are associated with lower skills of the child. Therefore, our …

distributions reflects inferior numerical skills. We address this lacuna by identifying 162 individuals in two independent data … proxy of the numerical skills and occupational background in a population. …

different types of skills and performance of young adults. While we follow the literature and consider grades in Mathematics and … Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills; performance in behavioral and … practical subjects. Using individual register data, we find that both types of skills are important predictors of high school …