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Author-Name: Traag Tanja 
Author-Name: Velden Rolf van der
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: The Effects of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Early School-Leaving
Abstract: In this paper we investigate how non-cognitive skills can explain individual differences in earlyschool-leaving controlling for cognitive skills. We use a large Dutch representative longitudinalcohort study “Secondary Education Pupil Cohort 1999.” In the first year of this study, personalitywas assessed with the FFPI as part of a comprehensive student questionnaire. Our results show thatwhile cognitive skills play an important role in explaining early school-leaving, non-cognitiveskills such as achievement motivation, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experienceplay an important role as well. In addition, we find that differences in non-cognitive skillsaffect the impact of cognitive skills performance on early school-leaving.  
Keywords: education, training and the labour market; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 020
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:0a31a1bb-5227-461d-8e5c-80e6356e3977/datastreams/ASSET1/content
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Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2012020