Screening and Signalling Non-Cognitive Skills: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Targeting non-cognitive skills to improve cognitive outcomes: evidence from a remedial education intervention

Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people’s cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of policies that specifically target students’ non-cognitive skills as a way to improve educatio...

"Fostering Non-Cognitive Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from an RCT in Israel"

This paper examines the impact of an active labor market program (ALMP) implemented in Israel using an experimental design. In this ALMP, welfare claimants receive a personalized treatment composed of weekly sessions with occupational trainers along with motivational and job-search assistance workshops. Personalized meetings and group workshops focus on strengthening participants’ soft skills a...

Long-term implications of undernutrition on non-cognitive skills: evidence from four developing countries

Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills matter to understand labour market outcomes. However, it is unclear how non-cognitive skills are produced and what is the role played by household investments in this process. Motivated by suggestions from the medical literature and by the skills formation model proposed by Cunha and Heckman (2007, 2008), in this paper we use longitudinal data from childr...

Literacy Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills and Earnings: An Economist’s Perspective

Can video games affect children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills?∗

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether there is a causal relationship between video game playing and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills. According to the literature, video games have a potential to improve children’s cognitive abilities. Video games may also positively affect such non-cognitive skills as the ability to sustain attention and pro-social behavior. On the other ...