The relative importance of adolescent skills and behaviors for adult earnings: A cross-national study

作者：Kathryn Duckworth, Greg J. Duncan, Katja Kokko, Anna‐Liisa Lyyra, Molly W. Metzger, Sharon Simonton · 发表于：RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 年份：2012 · 被引用次数：18 · 研究领域：Early Childhood Education and Development、School Choice and Performance、Cognitive Abilities and Testing

Seeking convergent findings in five data sets from four countries, we assess the relative importance of adolescent skills and behaviors for completed schooling and labor market success in adulthood. We provide a framework for classifying "noncognitive" skills and use data designed by developmental psychologists to provide reliable measures of a variety of achievement and behavioral skills assessed between ages 13 and 16. Results show that adolescent achievement, particularly math achievement, is a stronger predictor of completed schooling than measures of noncognitive skills. Achievement skills also out-predict noncognitive skills with regard to adult earnings, although the differences are not as striking.