Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability

By J. Cawley, James J. Heckman, E. Vytlacil. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Human Capital Theory (2014, background): “It is also well documented that meritocracy is not always the case in the labor market (see Cawley et al., 2001).”
More than just test scores (2012, background): “of this bleak statement, Cunha and Heckman (2008) were able to identify and employ specific non-cognitive measures in existing data sets that could be used for analysis augmented by further developments.”
MISBEHAVIOR, EDUCATION, AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES (2013, background): “…has emerged that documents the importance of noncognitive skills to various economic outcomes (see, e.g., Heckman 2000;Bowles et al. 2001a; Cawley et al. 2001; Heckman and Rubinstein 2001; Jacob 2002; Carneiro and Heckman 2003; Persico et al. 2004; Kuhn and Weinberger 2005; Heckman et al.…”
The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment (2011, neutral): “We obtain our measures of cognitive and noncognitive ability by using unique data 1See, for example, the studies by Bishop (1991); Murnane et al. (1995); Cawley et al. (1996); Neal and Johnson (1996); Altonji and Pierret (2001); Cawley et al. (2001) and Blau and Kahn (2005).”
LABOR‐MARKET CONSEQUENCES OF POOR ATTITUDE AND LOW SELF‐ESTEEM IN YOUTH (2006, background): “In this article, I assess the role of pre–labor market attitude and self-esteem in explaining disparities observed in the labor market experiences of a sample of high school graduates.”
Does it Pay to Be Nice? Personality and Earnings in the United Kingdom (2011, background): “For a long time, personality traits were not considered particularly relevant for labor market outcomes compared to the intelligence of a person (for a summary of evidence see Cawley et al., 2001).”
The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States (2008, neutral): “This is a common shortcoming of incomplete-market models (see Castañeda, Dı́azGiménez, and Ŕıos-Rull, 2003, and Domeij and Heathcote, 2004, for alternative calibration strategies that generate realistic wealth inequality).”