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Overeducation and wages : the role of cognitive skills and personality traits

Palczyńska, Marta - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111

This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...

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Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2021

professional achievement and educational attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are …

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Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023 - Revision: February 2023

attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are partially the result of a genetic lottery. …

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Using genes to explore the relationship of cognitive and non-cognitive skills with education and labor market outcomes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023

attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are partially the result of a genetic lottery. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278024

Evolving returns to personality

Izadi, Ramin; Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2024

education and more work experience, while cognitive ability and conscientiousness lead to higher education and high-paying jobs. …

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The heterogeneous effects of early track assignment on cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019

Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission thresholds, we estimate the cognitive and non-cognitive...

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The effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills : evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Entorf, Antonia K.; Dohmen, Thomas - 2025

education on noncognitive skills is less well understood. This study investigates the impact of extending compulsory education … Bank's 2012/2013 initiative, we analyze the within-country variation in compulsory education years. Our findings indicate … that increased compulsory education decreases emotional stability, grit, hostile attribution bias, patience, and …

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The effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills : evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Entorf, Antonia K.; Dohmen, Thomas - 2025

education on non-cognitive skills is less well understood. This study investigates the impact of extending compulsory education … Bank’s 2012/2013 initiative, we analyze the within-country variation in compulsory education years. Our findings indicate … that increased compulsory education decreases emotional stability, grit, hostile attribution bias, patience, and …

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High school choices by immigrant students in Italy: evidence from administrative data

Aktas, Koray; Argentin, Gianluca; Barbetta, Gian Paolo; … - 2021

We investigate the educational choices of first- and second-generation immigrantstudents at the transition between lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose...

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School-track environment or endowment : what determines different other-regarding behavior across peer groups?

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Games and economic behavior 94 (2015), pp. 122-141

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