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Table 1 Educational attainment and cognitive and non-cognitive skills

From: Personality, cognitive skills and life outcomes: evidence from the Polish follow-up study to PIAAC

 

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Numeracy

 

0.323***

  

0.315***

0.319***

0.310***

Conscientiousness

  

− 0.043

 

− 0.007

 

− 0.061

Extraversion

  

− 0.086**

 

− 0.060*

 

− 0.059*

Agreeableness

  

− 0.080

 

− 0.087*

 

− 0.066

Openness

  

0.172***

 

0.141***

 

0.144***

Neuroticism

  

− 0.051**

 

− 0.037*

 

− 0.019

Perseverance of effort

   

− 0.002

 

0.027

0.043

Consistency of interest

   

0.107***

 

0.071**

0.072***

Observations

4355

4355

4355

4355

4355

4355

4355

R 2

0.296

0.385

0.310

0.306

0.394

0.393

0.403

  1. p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 Control variables: age, age squared, gender, father’s education and mother’s education. Dependent variable, numeracy and non-cognitive skills are standardised. Full estimation results are presented in Additional file 3: Table S1