Arbeitspapier
(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence
Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students. Our RCT estimates, covering nearly 3,000 7th and 8th-grade students across over 50 schools and a period of two years, indicate that the program increases the probability of progression by 11% to 22%. The effects are stronger amongst older students, girls, and in language subjects (compared to maths).
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10950
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Education and Inequality
Labor Economics Policies
- Subject
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student achievement
non-cognitive skills
RCT
gender
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Martins, Pedro S.
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Martins, Pedro S.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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