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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
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 classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800572
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
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 classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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Long-term effects of rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills : evidence from Peru
Pazos, Nicolas; Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan; Scott, Douglas - 2023
Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, harming communities strongly tied to agricultural production, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in life on school achievement tests are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545819
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Time investment by parents in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities
Sepahvand, Mohammad; Shahbazian, Roujman; Swain, … - 2013
We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745250
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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
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Parental investments and children's human capital in low-to-middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2022
This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children's human capital in low …-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). First, it presents definitions and a simple analytical framework; then discusses determinants of children …; and concludes with a summary suggesting some positive impacts of parental investments on children's human capital in LMICs …
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Educational inequalities between children of marriage migrants and those of local-born parents - quantile regression results from Taiwan
Haepp, Tobias; Hsu, Mei - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 5, pp. 465-487
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The human capital cost of radiation : long-run evidence from exposure outside the womb
Elsner, Benjamin; Wozny, Florian - 2018
caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in radiation levels in most of Europe. To …-day window after the disaster. Based on unique geo-coded survey data from Germany, we show that people who lived in highly …
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Labor market returns and the evolution of cognitive skills : theory and evidence
Hermo, Santiago; Päällysaho, Miika; Seim, David; … - 2021
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The development of cognitive and noncognitive skills in students in the Autonomous Province of Trento
Vittadini, Giorgio; Folloni, Giuseppe; Sturaro, Caterina - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 7, pp. 1-17
The analysis of what human capital (HC) is has a long history and culminates in the acknowledgment that HC and its growth are very important for both cognitive education (cognitive skills (CSs)) and personal life (noncognitive skills (NCSs)) and that CSs and NCSs have a strong reciprocal...
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