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        %A Albiez, Janine
%A Strazzeri, Maurizio
%A Wolter, Stefan C.
        %T Students' Grit and Their Post-compulsory Educational Choices and Trajectories: Evidence from Switzerland
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16945
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16945
        %X We examine the association between the personality trait grit and post-compulsory educational choices and trajectories using a large survey linked to administrative student register data. Exploiting cross sectional variation in students' self-reported grit in the last year of compulsory school, we find that an increase in students' grit is associated with a higher likelihood to start a vocational education instead of a general education. This association is robust to the inclusion of cognitive skill measures and a comprehensive set of other students' background characteristics. Moreover, using novel data on skill requirements of around 240 vocational training occupations, we find that grittier vocational education students sort into math-intensive training occupations. Similarly, students in general education with more grit select themselves more often into the math-intensive track. Finally, we do not find evidence that students with a higher grit have lower dropout rates in post-compulsory education.
        %K grit
%K personality traits
%K non-cognitive skills
%K educational choices