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Cross-Fertilizing Gains or Crowding Out? Schooling Intensity and Noncognitive Skills

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  • Sarah C. Dahmann

    (The University of Sydney, School of Economics)

  • Silke Anger

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB) / Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg)

Abstract

This paper studies the impact of schooling intensity on students' noncognitive skills. It exploits a major school reform that reduced total years in high school but retained the high school curriculum, thereby increasing weekly school hours. The sharp, regionally staggered one-year reduction in high school duration allows us to identify causal effects. Our results show that higher schooling intensity decreases overall students' emotional stability but increases openness for disadvantaged students. Our finding that investments in cognitive skills can crowd out noncognitive skills is consistent with the predictions of our theoretical model, which imposes a per-period budget constraint for total investments in skill formation.

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  • Sarah C. Dahmann & Silke Anger, 2018. "Cross-Fertilizing Gains or Crowding Out? Schooling Intensity and Noncognitive Skills," Working Papers 2018-065, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:hka:wpaper:2018-065
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    1. Zölitz, Ulf & Shan, Xiaoyue, 2022. "Peers Affect Personality Development," CEPR Discussion Papers 17241, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

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    Keywords

    skill formation; non-cognitive skills; Big Five; locus of control; cognitive investment; high school reform;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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