Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly … understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random … conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, and social skill. The implied effects of a 10-15 percentage point change in the …

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly … understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random … conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, and social skill. The implied effects of a 10-15 percentage point change in the …

country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level …

and understand this finding theoretically, we consider a free trade model with two goods/industries, two skill types, and …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …

preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … potentially impacts not just health and productivity, but learning outcomes as well as cognitive and non-cognitive skill …