Paul Glewwe|Qiuqiong Huang|Albert Park
Cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and school-to-work transitions in rural China
University of Minnesota System|University of Arkansas at Fayetteville|Hong Kong University of Science and Technology|University of Hong Kong
economists long recognized important role formal schooling cognitive skills labor market participation wages recently increasing attention turned role personality traits noncognitive skills study among first examine cognitive noncognitive skills measured childhood predict educational attainment early labor market outcomes developing country setting analyzing longitudinal data rural children one chinas poorest provinces find cognitive noncognitive skills measured children 912 1316 1721 years old important predictors whether remain school enter work force age 1721 predictive power specific skill variables differ boys girls conditioning years schooling strong evidence skills measured childhood predict wages early years labor market participation