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Changing the lives of very young children: Evidence from RwandaGlobally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full potential...
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive abilityWorking Paper
Are you what you consume?: Impact of food, soft drinks, and coffee on cognitive and non-cognitive test scoresCognitive and non-cognitive tests are key factors in many aspects of economics, especially within labour market analysis...
Cognitive test Non-cognitive test Measurement errorWorking Paper
Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countriesParental human capital and endowments may affect children’s human capital, which in turn may affect children’s earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility...
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive abilityJournal Article
Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps: Evidence from BangladeshWe use a recent first-hand linked employer–employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits...
Gender gap Income inequality Cognitive abilityWorking Paper
Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps: Evidence from BangladeshWe use a recent first-hand linked employer-employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits...
Gender gap Income inequality Cognitive abilityJournal Article
Cognitive ability and games of school choiceWe take school admission mechanisms to the lab to test whether the widely-used manipulable Immediate Acceptance mechanism disadvantages students of lower cognitive ability and whether this leads to ability segregation across schools...
Laboratory experiment School choice Strategy-proofness