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The effect of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence

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  • Katja Coneus
  • Manfred Laucht

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This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child's attention span, approach, prevailing mood and distractibility in early childhood may be crucial predictors for school achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as adolescent. We investigate this issue using a longitudinal epidemiological cohort study of 384 children at risk from the Rhine--Neckar region in Germany. Our results indicate that noncognitive skills in early childhood are important predictors of educational success, tobacco and alcohol use, delinquency and autonomy in adolescence. In particular, the attention span has emerged as a dominant factor among noncognitive skills regarding educational performance, health behavior and delinquency in our study. Further, we find that boys with low noncognitive skills have significantly lower social outcomes compared with girls.

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  • Katja Coneus & Manfred Laucht, 2014. "The effect of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 112-140, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:22:y:2014:i:2:p:112-140
    DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2010.547720
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    1. Iago Portela-Pino & Myriam Alvariñas-Villaverde & Margarita Pino-Juste, 2021. "Socio-Emotional Skills as Predictors of Performance of Students: Differences by Gender," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-11, April.
    2. Iago Portela-Pino & Myriam Alvariñas-Villaverde & Margarita Pino-Juste, 2021. "Socio-Emotional Skills in Adolescence. Influence of Personal and Extracurricular Variables," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(9), pages 1-12, April.
    3. Atkins, Rose & Turner, Alex James & Chandola, Tarani & Sutton, Matt, 2020. "Going beyond the mean in examining relationships of adolescent non-cognitive skills with health-related quality of life and biomarkers in later-life," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 39(C).
    4. Shuang Yang, 2021. "The Long-Run Effects of Early Childhood Education and Care—An Empirical Analysis Based on the China Family Panel Studies Survey," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 14(5), pages 2021-2044, October.

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