Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D.

doi:10.1007/s00148-016-0625-9

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“…Previous research has shown that individuals with positive control beliefs invest more in their own education (Coleman and Deleire 2003;Hadsell 2010) and in the education of their children (Lekfuangfu et al 2014), and adolescents' control beliefs are associated with parental socioeconomic status (Schurer 2015;Anger and Schnitzlein 2015). Lundborg et al (2015) show evidence on the education-related heterogeneity in the response to health shocks using Swedish administrative data, although the authors do not discuss the mechanisms.…”

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Bouncing back from health shocks: Locus of control and labor supply

Schurer

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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My findings provide clear evidence of personality differences in labour supply responses to health shocks amongst German men. When compared with men who have positive control beliefs, men with negative control beliefs are on average 100% more likely to drop out of the labour force after a health shock. This drop out is unrelated to early retirement. In addition, when compared with men who have positive control beliefs, men with negative control beliefs work on average 12% fewer hours per week over the year when experiencing a health shock. These behavioural differences are strongest for men from low socioeconomic backgrounds, men who do not have access to private health insurance, and men who experience high intensity shocks to their health. Different labour-supply responses are also observed for conscientiousness and risk tolerance, traits that have been linked with willingness to invest and treatment compliance.Teaching individuals the ability to interpret experiences in an optimistic fashion and to understand the importance of taking self-responsibility could be a cost-effective way to counter-balance rising health care costs associated with an aging society and with increasing prevalence rates of avoidable illnesses (such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease). This would require interventions at the person or community level, with the possibility that such interventions begin during infancy and teenage years. ABOUT THE AUTHORSStefanie Schurer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at The University of Sydney. Her main research interest is the Economics of Human Development. Most of her current research projects explore the evolution of skills, preferences, and health over the life course and the role that parents and the public sector play in determining these skills. AbstractMany studies have demonstrated a causal effect of ill health on labor-supply. In this study, Iexplore the personality-related heterogeneity -measured by differences in control beliefs -in the labor-supply response to health shocks. To identify such behavioral differences, I follow the labor-supply trajectories of 649 initially full-time employed and healthy men who experience at some point in time an episode of ill health. When compared with men who have positive control beliefs, men with negative control beliefs are on average 100% more likely to drop out of the labor force -a drop out unrelated to early retirement -and work on average 12% less hours per week the year after the health shock. These behavioral differences remain robust to alternative estimation samples and health-shock definitions. They are strongest for men from low socioeconomic backgrounds, who do not have access to private health insurance, or who experience high intensity shocks. Heterogeneous labor-supply responses are also observed for conscientiousness and risk tolerance, traits that have been linked with willingness to invest and treatment compliance. An important conclusion from the findings is that a small set of non-cognitive skills produ...

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Section: Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 89%

Bouncing back from health shocks: Locus of control and labor supply

Schurer

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…With a mean age of 40-42 years in all data sets, the personality traits should mostly be stable. As constant factors, such as genetic determination and family background account for large variation in personality traits (Eysenck, 1990;Riemann et al, 1997;Anger and Schnitzlein, 2017), I expect within-individual variation across time in non-cognitive skills to be a minor problem.…”

Section: Measures Of Personalitymentioning

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The Returns to Personality Traits Across the Wage Distribution

Collischon¹

2017

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractThis paper investigates variation in the wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I expect (i) increasing explanatory power and (ii) increasing magnitudes of the effects of non-cognitive skills on wages across the wage distribution. I test these hypotheses using unconditional quantile regressions with data from Germany, the UK and Australia. To test the joint explanatory contribution of multiple variables within a quantile-regression framework, I propose a new statistic that quantifies the rise in explanatory power generated by additional explanatory variables. The findings support both hypotheses and provide further evidence for the importance of non-cognitive skills in the labor market.

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“…Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the results showed that maternal job loss increased preschool children's socio-behavioural problems and decreased adolescents' belief in self-determination. Using data of the locus of control, reciprocity and the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism), Anger and Schnitzlein estimated sibling correlations in non-cognitive skills to evaluate the effect of family background on skill formation, which results showed that the effect was all-around and multifaceted [21]. Using a recent US panel dataset that tracked children between grades K-5, Fletcher and Wolfe presented new evidence of the importance of family income in the formation and evolution of children's non-cognitive skills [22].…”

Section: Family Background and Non-cognitive Skillsmentioning

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Analysis on the Influence of Family Background and Cultural Capital on the Non-cognitive Skills of Children

Luo¹

2017

EDU

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Abstract:The non-cognitive skills of children in family reproduction have been concerned more and more. Based on the survey of junior middle school student, we used principal component analysis to obtain the value of the index of non-cognitive skills, and further adopted the OLS method analyzing the determinants of the non-cognitive skills. It is shown that family income, parental occupations and education, participating in parent-child cultural activities, family collection of books, the grade of child, and the quality of teaching have significant and positive effect on non-cognitive skills, but taking part in an interest-oriented class and a child's gender haven't significant effect. So, the family background and the cultural capital significantly promote children's non-cognitive skills.

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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations

Cited by 64 publications

References 55 publications

Bouncing back from health shocks: Locus of control and labor supply

Bouncing back from health shocks: Locus of control and labor supply

The Returns to Personality Traits Across the Wage Distribution

Analysis on the Influence of Family Background and Cultural Capital on the Non-cognitive Skills of Children

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