Making it right? Social norms, handwriting and human capital.

Autor/in	Guber, Raphael
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. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
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