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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...
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We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes. In particular, we emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven hundred children in a variety of strategic...
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unobserved individual effects and random earnings shocks. For this purpose, we decompose earnings into a component determined by … initial unobserved earnings ability and experience-related heterogeneity and a component determined by earnings shocks. Our … British female workers. In the UK, the initial unobserved earnings capacity is higher for workers starting off with a …
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This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential …-age population with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for personality and … also demonstrate that personality is one of the contributors to the risk of being overeducated among workers aged 18 …
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