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Autor/in | Guber, Raphael |
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Institution | Munich Center for the Economics of Aging |
Titel | Making it right? Social norms, handwriting and human capital. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Mit rechts arbeiten? Soziale Normen, Handschriftlichkeit und Humankapital. |
Quelle | München (2016), 73 S.
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Reihe | MEA discussion papers. 2016,07 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Bildung; Erziehung; Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Soziale Norm; Eltern; Kind; Schreiben; Diskriminierung; Einkommensunterschied; Stigmatisierung; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Investition; Physiologischer Faktor |
Abstract | "I study the forced right-hand writing of left-handed children (switching) as a case where social norms motivate parents to invest in their children. While the previous literature has found that left-handers obtain less human capital and lower wages than right-handers, due to innate cognitive deficits, I find that switched lefthanders actually perform equally well or even better than right-handers in the labor market, while non-switched left-handers exhibit the known deficits of left-handers. Using rich data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), it is shown that these differences occur due to differential human capital accumulation indicating a discrimination during schooling. Taking into account schooling, both types of left-handers exhibit the same wage gap with right-handers. Cognitive and noncognitive traits differ and matter little in explaining these gaps. These findings are consistent with switching being a compensatory intervention for innate deficits. To address potential (positive) selection bias, I propose an identification strategy based on right-handers as a counter-factual group." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). |
Erfasst von | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg |
Update | 2017/3 |