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Learning from one's community: neighborhood effects on non-cognitive skills

Delabroye, Solveig - 2020 - Revised November 23, 2020

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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...

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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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School feeding and children's noncognitive skills : evidence from the Nutrition Improvement Program in rural China

Zheng, Xiaodong; Ren, Jingru; Chen, Dian; Fang, Xiangming - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 55, pp. 6459-6478

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The economic value of childhood socio-emotional skills

Del Bono, Emilia; Etheridge, Ben; Garcia, Paul - 2024

We investigate the relationship between child socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. We perform a novel factor analysis of child skills and capture four latent dimensions, representing "attention", "conduct", "emotional", and...

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Childhood cognitive ability, education, and personality traits predict attainment in adult occupational prestige over 17 years

Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian - In: Journal of vocational behavior 81 (2012) 2, pp. 218-226

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The Development of Problem Solving in Young Children : A Critical Cognitive Skill

Keen, Rachel - 2010

Problem solving is a signature attribute of adult humans, but we need to understand how this develops in children. Tool … use is proposed as an ideal way to study problem solving in children less than 3 years of age because overt manual action …

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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 Skills Development

Tan, Chih Ming - 2018

The importance of (early) parental investments in children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a question of deep … children born just before and just after the cutoff for a “lucky” versus “nonlucky” zodiac sign, we find that parents …

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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021

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Do parental time investments react to changes in child's skills and health?

Nicoletti, Cheti; Tonei, Valentina - In: European economic review : EER 127 (2020), pp. 1-30

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