Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills for the Peruvian Labor Market : Addressing Measurement Error through Latent Skills Estimations

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills for the Peruvian Labor Market : Addressing Measurement Error through Latent Skills Estimations

Evidence from developed country data suggests that cognitive and non-cognitive skills contribute to improved labor market outcomes. This paper tests this hypothesis in a developing country by using an individual-level data set from Peru that incorp...

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Main Authors:	Cunningham, Wendy, Parra Torrado, Mónica, Sarzosa, Miguel
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	SKILLS COMPUTER LITERACY HIGH‐SCHOOL COGNITIVE TESTS MOTIVATION PERSONALITY ACHIEVEMENT TESTS MOTHER TONGUE WORKING MEMORY COGNITIVE” SKILLS SCHOOLING PSYCHOLOGY NUMERACY LEVELS OF EDUCATION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT BIAS LITERACY SURVEY GROUPS INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION POLICY HIGH SCHOOL LIFE SKILLS LOWER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION META‐ANALYSIS PAPERS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR APTITUDES THINKING ROLES ADULTS LITERACY SKILLS LANGUAGE PARENTAL EDUCATION INFORMATION PROCESSING LITERACY KNOWLEDGE ADULT LIFE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT SKILL DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE TEST IMAGINATION MATHEMATICS COGNITIVE SKILLS TRAINING DECISION‐MAKING TESTS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION RELATIONSHIPS ABILITY SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT AGING SECONDARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOLING SCHOOL CURRICULUM NEEDS LEARNING SKILL ACQUISITION PRIMARY SCHOOL REASONING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TEST SCORES SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TESTING PROBLEM SOLVING SCHOOL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY COGNITION SECONDARY EDUCATION COGNITIVE ABILITY BELIEFS STUDY STUDIES ADOLESCENCE REFERENCE BOOKS VALUES SCHOOLS OLDER AGE GROUPS PARTICIPATION AGE GENDER CHILDHOOD MORALITY ADULT LITERACY OCCUPATIONS AGE GROUPS ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATION LEVEL EFFORT EARLY CHILDHOOD YOUTH DECISION MAKING PERSONALITY TRAITS SELF‐EFFICACY INFORMATION‐PROCESSING WORKSHOPS INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ADOLESCENTS CURRICULUM TEACHER PERCEPTION UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN SELF‐ESTEEM EDUCATION VERBAL ABILITY STATISTICS RATES OF RETURN PLAYING PERFORMANCE BASIC SKILLS EXPERIENCE ACTIVITY INTERACTIONS OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE SELF‐ ESTEEM LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS PRIMARY EDUCATION OLDER ADULTS WOMEN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY MEMORY CLASSROOM GOALS SCHOOL RETURNS TO EDUCATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25855104/cognitive-non-cognitive-skills-peruvian-labor-market-addressing-measurement-error-through-latent-skills-estimations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23725

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