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Can non-cognitive skills programs improve achievement? : quasi-experimental evidence from EPIS

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

Do investments in soft skills pay off in terms of student achievement? This paper evaluates a large private-sector program in this area, EPIS, based on individual and small-group sessions of mediators that seek to improve the non-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness)...

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(How) do non-cognitive skills programs improve adolescent school achievement? : experimental evidence

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....

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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude

Hille, Adrian - 2015

present these programs as innovative policies that are important for the personality development of young children. However …

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Long run effects of universal childcare on personality traits

Bach, Maximilian; Koebe, Josefine; Peter, Frauke - 2019

students' personality traits in adolescence. We focus on personality traits as part of their non-cognitive skills set and as …

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Technical education, non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Brazil

Camargo, Juliana; Lima, Lycia; Riva, Flavio; Souza, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34

This paper describes the results from an evaluation of a public policy that offers scholarships to current and former public high school students, so that they can attend technical and vocational education courses free of charge. We use a waiting list randomized controlled trial in four...

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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus

Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020

Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...

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Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Ollikainen, Jani-Petteri; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, … - 2022

We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. We measure these skills using the Finnish Defence Forces Basic Skills Test...

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Fostering soft skills in active labor market programs : evidence from a large-scale RCT

Schlosser, Analia; Shanan, Yannay - 2022

The long-term unemployed sometimes lack basic soft skills needed to enter and succeed in the labor market. We examine whether it is possible to develop or enhance these skills among adults by using a large-scale randomized control trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of an Active Labor...

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The right stuff? : personality and entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 2, pp. 643-691

incorporate personality traits by allowing them to affect sector-specific earnings as well as preferences. The estimated model … personality traits, affect selection into self-employment. We link these two lines of inquiry. The model we estimate captures … three factors that affect selection into self-employment: credit constraints, relative earnings, and preferences. We …

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Effects of extending paid parental leave on children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte - 2022

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...

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