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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged ...
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(Elsevier, 2008-08)What causes poverty and how does an individual escape it? Factors such as intelligence and social class background are thought to be important. However, a number of economists have argued that an individual’s profile of ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)Research on time preference formation and socioeconomic differences in discounting has received little attention to date. This article examines the extent to which early childhood differences emerge in measures of ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-08)This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-09)Despite the increasing coverage and prevalence of equality legislation and the general alignment of key determining characteristics such as educational attainment, gender differentials continue to persist in labour market ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-03-09)Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of human development. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)Globalisation is one of the primary accused culprits of growing income inequality in the developed world. In particular, outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) is often associated with general “skill upgrading" in the ...
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(Elsevier, 2010-06)Beyond cognitive ability and family background, are there other significant determinants of educational attainment? From research in psychology, economics, education and criminology, one powerful influence is the ability ...
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(Irish Economic Association, 2009-01-16)This research is concerned with the skills-match between researchers' Ph.D. training and their subsequent university employment. Self-rated skills-matching is considered in light of the anchoring vignettes technique. ...
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(UCD Geary InstituteUniversity College Dublin; School of Economics, 2005-04-06)This paper uses semi-parametric econometric techniques to investigate the relationship between basic skills and earning in three post-communist countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia using the IALS dataset. ...