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Beyond literacy: The incremental value of non-cognitive skills

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  • Beatrice Rammstedt
  • Clemens M. Lechner
  • Daniel Danner

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This paper reviews a number of previous studies that have investigated how measure of non-cognitive skills predict important life outcomes such as educational attainment, employment, earnings, and self-reported health and life satisfaction. All reviewed studies analyse data from large-scale surveys from multiple countries and rely on the Big-Five framework to assess non-cognitive skills. The paper finds that measures of non-cognitive skills are robustly and consistently associated to indicators of life success in youth and adulthood, and have incremental predictive power over traditional measures of cognitive ability.

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  • Beatrice Rammstedt & Clemens M. Lechner & Daniel Danner, 2024. "Beyond literacy: The incremental value of non-cognitive skills," OECD Education Working Papers 311, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:311-en
    DOI: 10.1787/7d4fe121-en
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