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Who Do You Want on Your Team? Sports Skills, Math Skills, and Outcomes over the Life Cycle
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Weinberger, Catherine J. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Using panel data (HSB & NLSY) and measures of occupation-specific skills (DOT), this paper explores the structure of labor market outcomes associated with early endowments of cognitive and non-cognitive skills. High school sports participants and students with high math scores are known to earn more as young adults. This analysis documents relationships between early endowments and later outcomes over the life cycle. Conditional on cognitive endowments, high school sports participants earn more and have faster career progress. Sports participants with strong cognitive endowments tend to sort to occupations with particularly high earnings and high levels of responsibility for interpersonal tasks, especially as a cohort matures. I thank Peter Kuhn for many helpful discussions. I gratefully acknowledge that this research was supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association which receives funds for its “AERA Grants Program” from the National Science foundation and the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics and the Institute of Education Sciences under NSF Grant #REC-9980573. Opinions reflect those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the granting agencies. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://econ.ucsb.edu/~weinberg/softskills.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
