Non-Cognitive Skills and Remedial Education: Good News for Girls

Marianna Battaglia and Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo

No 20.10, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics

Abstract: Growing evidence shows that non-cognitive skills are crucial for labor market and other outcomes in life. However, little is known about the role of education in improving these abilities, especially for disadvantaged teenagers in developed countries. We address two questions: can remedial educational interventions improve their non-cognitive skills? and, can we expect heterogeneous effects by gender? We take advantage of a remedial program for under-performing students implemented in Spain and we consider testing behaviors as measures of non-cognitive skills. The impact of remedial programs on these abilities, especially malleable for teenagers, has been overlooked in the literature. We find that the program had a substantial positive effect on girls' non-cognitive skills but not on boys'.

Keywords: remedial education; test performance; PISA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I23 I28 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 61 pages
Date: 2020
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