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72 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13966
The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
John A. List, Fatemeh Momeni, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13771
An Intensive, School-Based Learning Camp Targeting Academic and Non-Cognitive Skills Evaluated in a Randomized Trial
Charlotte Hvidman, Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger, Søren Albeck Nielsen, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13721
First in Their Families at University: Can Non-cognitive Skills Compensate for Social Origin?
Rebecca Edwards, Rachael Gibson, Colm P. Harmon, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13720
Who is Resilient in a Time of Crisis? The Importance of Financial and Non-Financial Resources
David W. Johnston, Claryn S. J. Kung, Michael A. Shields
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13342
Are Personality Traits Really Fixed and Does It Matter?
Steven Stillman, Malathi Velamuri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13248
The Graduate Wage and Earnings Premia and the Role of Non-Cognitive Skills
Gerda Buchmueller, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13063
Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Fabrice Etilé, Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12777
Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye, Mona Said
published in: Economic Modelling, 2020, 85, 367-380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12700
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants: New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12629
A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life: Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Zichen Deng, Maarten Lindeboom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12550
The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-Cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country
Asadul Islam, Wang-Sheng Lee, Aaron Nicholas
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150:102615.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12484
Early Education and Gender Differences
Daniela Del Boca, Enrica Maria Martino, Elena Claudia Meroni, Daniela Piazzalunga
published in Gender Economics Special issue of Economia Italiana 3, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12118
Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
Luciana Méndez-Errico, Xavier Ramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11920
High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives
David B. Huffman, Michael L. Bognanno
published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11800
The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Colm P. Harmon, Anita Staneva
forthcoming in IZA Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11607
Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Jessica Leight, Elaine M. Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11606
Use of Extra-School Time and Child Behaviours: Evidence from the UK
Elena Claudia Meroni, Daniela Piazzalunga, Chiara D. Pronzato
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11603
Testing at Length If It Is Cognitive or Non-Cognitive
Giorgio Brunello, Angela Crema, Lorenzo Rocco
substantial revision forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11547
A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills
Michael C. Knaus
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2020, 184(1), 282-300
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11451
Exploring the Role of Fathers in Non-Cognitive Skill Development over the Lifecourse
Rosemary Elkins, Stefanie Schurer
forthcoming as 'Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse' in: Journal of Population Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11447
The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood: Evidence by Age
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina M. Siflinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11268
For Better or Worse? The Effects of Physical Education on Child Development
Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anne K. Reimers
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 1010904
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11211
The Effect of Multigrade Classes on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: Causal Evidence Exploiting Minimum Class Size Rules in Italy
Daniele Checchi, Maria De Paola
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 67, 235-253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10982
The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Ukraine
Sinem H. Ayhan, Kseniia Gatskova, Hartmut Lehmann
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (1), 144 - 162.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10950
(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence
Pedro S. Martins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10889
The Timing of Puberty and Gender Differences in Educational Achievement
Kristian Koerselman, Tuomas Pekkarinen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10822
The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Victor Ronda, Yu Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10661
Does Early Child Care Attendance Influence Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skill Development?
Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner
forthcoming in: Demography
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10625
Let the Girls Learn! It is not Only about Math… It's about Gender Social Norms
Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published in: Economics of Education Review, February 2018, vol. 62: 230-253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10525
Bonus Skills: Examining the Effect of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Child Human Capital Formation
Jason Gaitz, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10397
On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters
John Eric Humphries, Fabian Kosse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9957
Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking
James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9918
Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations
Silke Anger, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 591-620
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9756
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0–2 for Girls
Margherita Fort, Andrea Ichino, Giulio Zanella
revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(1), 158-205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9617
Opening the Blackbox: How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment
Patrick Arni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9449
The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR
Jan Bietenbeck
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 392-426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9173
The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Non-Cognitive Skills
Susan L. Averett, Yang Wang
published as 'Effects of Higher EITC Payments on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Noncognitive Skills ' in: Public Finance Review, 2018, 46 (4), 519-557
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8874
Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer, Felix Leung
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8696
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Tim Kautz, James J. Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel, Lex Borghans
published in: OECD Education Working Papers, 2014, No. 110 [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8608
Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes
Emilia Del Bono, Marco Francesconi, Yvonne Kelly, Amanda Sacker
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F96-F135
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8470
Behavioral Economics of Education
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger, Helena Skyt Nielsen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 3-17.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8346
Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes
Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8203
Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality
Stefanie Schurer
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,133, 1-20, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8139
The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform
Sarah C. Dahmann, Silke Anger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7898
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden
Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark, Markus Frölich
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7837
Locus of Control and Savings
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Mathias Sinning
published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2016, 73, 113-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7655
How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Adrian Hille, Jürgen Schupp
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 44, 56-8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7382
The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, Michael Housman
revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6976
Leadership at School: Does the Gender of Siblings Matter?
Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 51-64
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6789
Healthy Habits: The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 1-28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6755
Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments
Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Marian Vidal-Fernández
published as 'The Early Origins of Birth Order Differences in Children's Outcomes and Parental Behavior' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, 123 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6654
Unemployment Persistence: How Important Are Non-Cognitive Skills?
Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Santiago Budría
forthcoming in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2017.05.006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6570
Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform
Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (1), 253-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6315
Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 135-173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6105
Sports and Child Development
Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner, Andreas Steinmayr
published in: PLoS One, 2016, 11(5), e0151729
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6099
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
Petter Lundborg, Martin Nordin, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'The intergenerational transmission of human capital: the role of skills and health' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1035-1065.'
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5980
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England
Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt
published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 831-874
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5943
The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Stefanie Schurer
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 11-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5879
Long-Term Effects of Class Size
Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Hessel Oosterbeek
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 249-285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5819
Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?
Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields
published as 'Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F688-F719
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5740
Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk
published online in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15(1), 58-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5630
Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Stefanie Schurer
published in: The Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F358-F400
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5255
Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
substantially revised version published in: Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012, 35 (4), 481-490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5180
Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?
Didier Fouarge, Trudie Schils, Andries de Grip
published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (18), 2587-2601
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5144
Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours
Martin Ryan, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon
published as "The Role of Noncognitive Traits in Undergraduate Study Behaviours" in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 181-195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5093
Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?
Heather Antecol, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 59-73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4775
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4476
Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention
Helena Holmlund, Olmo Silva
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (2), 126-160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4266
The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(1), 141-166.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4222
How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?
Stefanie Behncke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3906
Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Niels-Hugo Blunch
published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3188
Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 30-43
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