Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,373
Cover Image
The creativity premium : exploring the link between childhood creativity and life outcomes
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2023 - This version: April 5, 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383612
Cover Image
The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549190
Cover Image
Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293676
Cover Image
The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013339188
Cover Image
Origins of adulthood personality : the role of adverse childhood experiences
Fletcher, Jason; Schurer, Stefanie - 2017
We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health - are associated with age 30 personality traits. We use rich longitudinal data from a large, representative cohort of young US Americans and exploit differences across siblings to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612740
Cover Image
Origins of adulthood personality : the role of adverse childhood experiences
Fletcher, Jason; Schurer, Stefanie - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 17 (2017) 2, pp. 1-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658777
Cover Image
Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 298-328
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341695
Cover Image
Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … evidence that the academic achievement of immigrant children in early adolescence is an accurate predictor of later life … outcomes. We also examine a novel hypothesis that relative academic performance of immigrant children in high school compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457898
Cover Image
It's all in the stars : the Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development
Tan, Chih Ming; Wang, Xiao; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111537
Cover Image
Early lead exposure and outcomes in adulthood
Grönqvist, Hans; Nilsson, J. Peter; Robling, Per-Olof - 2017
non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead exposure, we follow 800,000 children from birth into adulthood. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697367