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Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

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We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. We measure these skills using the Finnish Defence Forces Basic Skills Test that due to compulsory military service covers the vast majority of Finnish men and is a strong predictor of later labor market success. We find that large differences in average skills across students that differ in their schooling when entering military service are due to selection rather than causal effects of secondary schooling on either cognitive or non-cognitive skills.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15318

Classification
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Analysis of Education
Subject
non-cognitive skills
regression discontinuity
secondary schooling

Event
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(who)
Ollikainen, Jani-Petteri
Pekkarinen, Tuomas
Uusitalo, Roope
Virtanen, Hanna
Event
Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
(when)
2022

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Ollikainen, Jani-Petteri
  • Pekkarinen, Tuomas
  • Uusitalo, Roope
  • Virtanen, Hanna
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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