Beyond literacy
The incremental value of non-cognitive skills
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.
Published on March 26, 2024
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