Beyond literacy: The incremental value of non-cognitive skills

Beatrice Rammstedt, Clemens M. Lechner and Daniel Danner

No 311, OECD Education Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper reviews a number of previous studies that have investigated how measure of non-cognitive skills predict important life outcomes such as educational attainment, employment, earnings, and self-reported health and life satisfaction. All reviewed studies analyse data from large-scale surveys from multiple countries and rely on the Big-Five framework to assess non-cognitive skills. The paper finds that measures of non-cognitive skills are robustly and consistently associated to indicators of life success in youth and adulthood, and have incremental predictive power over traditional measures of cognitive ability.

Date: 2024-03-26
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