Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and the Employment and Wages of Young Adults in Rural China

Paul Glewwe, Qiuqiong Huang and Albert Park

No 103407, 2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to examine whether noncognitive skills explain differences in employment status and hourly wages even after controlling for age, experience, schooling and cognitive skills. Of particular interest is to examine the relative magnitudes of the impacts of the cognitive and noncognitive skills on these labor market outcomes. Data used in this paper come from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families (GSCF), which followed a random sample of 2,000 children in rural areas of Gansu Province who were 9-12 years old in the year 2000. Three waves of surveys were completed in 2000, 2004, and 2007-2009. The GSCF is the first large-scale data collection on child and adolescent cognitive and noncognitive skills in rural China.

Keywords: International Development; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.103407

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