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Testing the validity of item non-response as a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills
New, Sonja C. de; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015
Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488164
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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nichtkognitive Fähigkeiten: deutsche und internationale Evidenz
Schlotter, Martin; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 3, pp. 99-120
Dieser Artikel präsentiert Ergebnisse mehrerer international vergleichender und deutscher mikroökonometrischer Untersuchungen zum Zusammenhang zwischen frühkindlicher Bildung und späteren kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten anhand der TIMSS-, PISA-, IGLU- und DJI-Kinderpanel-...
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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?
Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022
We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...
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The making of a manager: evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272204
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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276392
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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nichtkognitive Fähigkeiten: deutsche und internationale Evidenz
Schlotter, Martin; Wößmann, Ludger - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 79 (2010) 3, pp. 99-120
Preschool Education and Later Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: German and International Evidence - We present international and German evidence on the association between preschool education and later cognitive and non-cognitive skills based on data from TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS, and the DJI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752605
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; ter Weel, Bas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and … preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains. Their predictive power rivals that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105056
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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195812
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Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away
Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2015
The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451185
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Women do not play their aces : the consequences of shying away
Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015
The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449213