In this paper, we examine how school enrollment at a relatively younger or older age in relation to age-based cut-off dates for school entry affects the development of non-cognitive skills. Specifically, we…
The goal of clustering is to partition the objects (here: persons) into groups which ideally should be homogenous and well-separated (i.e. low within-group and high between-groups heterogeneity). In the context…
The education variable in the IAB datasets suffers from problems like missing and misclassified values. The data problems do not occur randomly, but are highly associated with other variables from the dataset.…
Mortality rates among prime-age adults are dramatically high in many sub-Saharan African countries, and, as a consequence, the number of orphaned children is high and increasing. In this paper, we identify the…
Recent research in economics reveals a substantial impact of personality traits or noncognitive skills on outcomes related to educational and labor market success. A virtue of these noncognitive skills compared…
In recent decades, changes in parents’ attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise their development have greatly affected patterns of time allocation among both working and…