Skill Development Within and Outside School, Nonacademic Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Aderonke Osikominu
• Subject Area: Statistics and Econometrics
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 256523987

• Final Report Year: 2018

Final Report Abstract

In this project we sought to advance the understanding of how skills develop from childhood through young adulthood. In a first step, we tried to identify activities outside school that contribute to the development of skills. In order to estimate the effects of such activities on skill development, we combined flexible econometric methods from the program evaluation paradigm with a structural economic framework of skill production. In a next step, we investigated the interactions between different learning environments and activities in the production of skills. This allowed us to identify substitutes and complements in the production of skills.

Publications

• "The Effect of Teenage Employment on Character Skills and Occupational Choice Strategies", Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences No. 14-2016
  Benjamin Fuchs
  
• "Goodbye Smokers' Corner: Health Effects of School Smoking Bans at Secondary Schools", Journal of Human Resources
  Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter, and Kristina Strohmaier
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.55.3.1217-9246R3)