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There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
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There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in labor market productivity and other outcomes. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects: measurement, development over the life...
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, education has, so far, received less attention - a surprising oversight, given the field's key interest in long-run decision … behavioral economics of education. We first develop a general framework for thinking about why youth and their parents might not … always take full advantage of education opportunities. We then discuss how these behavioral barriers may be preventing some …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
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insight relevant to any nation's educational context. -- Returns to education ; GED ; dropouts ; graduation rate …
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In this paper I survey the recent economics of education literature in order to identify which education policies can … its primary education. Evidence suggests that broadly scoped resource-based programmes deliver less than more targeted … policies. Additionally, a growing body of research shows that interventions that enhance choice and competition among education …
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This report reviews the effectiveness of early childhood stimulation interventions in developing countries. The report aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young children in developing countries? For whom and under what conditions do these programs work and...
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This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a...
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