Dokument: Economics Begins in Childhood: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
| Titel: | Economics Begins in Childhood: Essays in Applied Microeconomics | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=63397 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20230816-105519-4 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Breitkopf, Laura [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Prof. Dr. Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah [Gutachter] Jun.-Prof. Andreas Lichter [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie » 330 Wirtschaft | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | Non-cognitive skills matter. By now, this statement is almost common knowledge, and economists have spent much time and energy integrating this insight into their models and, piece by piece, gathering and consolidating empirical evidence. Non-cognitive skills are key predictors of central life outcomes such as educational attainment, job performance, earnings, and health. Non-cognitive skills, thereby, encompass economic preferences and personality traits from psychology, which are related concepts designed to characterize individuals. The predictive power of preferences and personality traits has been documented thoroughly for adults. However, less is known about both their relevance and their formation in childhood and adolescence. For adults, preferences and personality traits are assumed to have a high degree of stability over time. But when and how are they formed? Can they be molded and (how) can their development be promoted at an early stage? How do children’s skills translate into behavior and well-being?
This thesis is organized around these broad questions and aims at contributing to an improved empirical understanding of the foundations of individual decision-making. The four essays reflect the deep belief that children play a relevant role and that understanding decision-making within a society requires researchers to perceive children and adolescents as economic actors. As inequalities in skills across socio-economic groups open up at young ages, knowledge about skill formation can help to detect and alleviate (long-term) consequences. To gain more knowledge here, all thesis parts draw on incentivized lab-in-the-field experiments and validated survey scales from psychology to measure non-cognitive skills precisely and reliably. These profound measures are then taken to investigate childhood development of skills, relationships between skills and children’s immediate life outcomes, and factors influencing both. | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät » Volkswirtschaftslehre | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 16.08.2023 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 16.08.2023 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 04.08.2022 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 29.09.2022 |
