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Hanushek, Eric A.; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; Woessmann, Ludger – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -- Facebook interests -- to construct novel regional…
Descriptors: Time, Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Correlation
Eric A. Hanushek; Lavinia Kinne; Pietro Sancassani; Ludger Woessmann – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -- Facebook interests -- to construct novel regional…
Descriptors: Social Media, Human Capital, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Gini, Gianluca; Pozzoli, Tiziana; Bussey, Kay – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study investigated the relationships between three psychopathic dimensions (callousness/unemotionality, grandiosity/manipulation, and impulsivity/irresponsibility) and reactive and instrumental aggression in a community sample of early adolescents (N = 243, age M = 12.29, SD = 1.18). The moderating role of moral disengagement (MD) was also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Psychopathology, Personality Traits
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Picchio, Mariacristina; Giovannini, Donatella; Mayer, Susanna; Musatti, Tullia – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
Systematic documentation and analysis of educational practice can be a powerful tool for continuous support to the professionalism of early childhood education practitioners. This paper discusses data from a three-year action-research initiative carried out by a research agency in collaboration with a network of Italian municipal "nido"…
Descriptors: Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Children, Educational Practices