Measurement and Development of Noncognitive Skills in Adolescence: Evidence from Chicago Public Schools and the OneGoal Program
利用行政数据测量非认知技能，并评估OneGoal项目对弱势学生大学入学和犯罪率的影响，发现该项目使大学入学率提高10-20个百分点，男性犯罪率降低5个百分点，其中13%-32%的效果归因于非认知技能提升。
Using administrative data, we develop measures of noncognitive skills and evaluate OneGoal, an intervention designed to help disadvantaged students complete college by teaching them noncognitive skills. We (1) compare the outcomes of participants and nonparticipants with similar characteristics and (2) use a difference-in-differences approach exploiting that OneGoal was introduced into different schools at different times. We estimate that OneGoal increases college enrollment by 10–20 percentage points for males and females and reduces arrest rates by 5 percentage points for males. Through a mediation analysis, we find that improvements in noncognitive skills account for 13%–32% of these effects.