Wage premia for skills: the complementarity of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills

Data linking 1972 and 1992 adolescent skill endowments to adult outcomes reveals increasing complementarity between cognitive and social skills. In fact, previously noted growth in demand for cognitive skills affected only individuals with strong endowments of both social and cognitive skills. These findings are corroborated using Census and CPS data matched with DOT job task measures; employme...

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

Hard Skills, Soft Skills: The Relative Roles of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills in Intergenerational Social Mobility

In this article, we adopt a two-step strategy to assess the relative roles of cognitive and noncognitive skills in mediating the relationship between family SES and children’s academic achievement using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort. First, we decompose the total effects of family background on children’s achievement into: (1) direct effects of family back...

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 ...

The Effect of Critical Thinking Skills Training on the Development of Social Skills and Cognitive Skills Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching critical thinking skills on students' social and cognitive development. This quasi-experimental study was performed using pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population consisted of all seventh grade female students in Karaj in the academic year 95-96. Multistage cluster sampling method was used for sampl...