Skill Formation and School Outcome: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Skill Formation and School Outcome: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
The research unit "Neuropsychology of Childhood and Adolescence" at the Central Institute of Mental Health and the educational group at the ZEW cooperated to study different development and environmental risks for school success. We investigated the relationship between initial conditions, cognitive and noncognitive skill formation and educational outcomes with the Mannheim Longitudinal Study of Children at Risk, 1986 to 2006. According to our results interpersonal differences in measured intelligence consolidate between the age of 2 and 5. Measured intelligence at the age of two month helps to explain the probability of having entered a Gymnasium at the age of 15. Since 2008 the cooperation is part of the research network "Noncognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences".
