Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100463

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140100463

Funding Status
Closed

Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the .

Funded Activity Summary

Exceptional upward mobility against all odds: Non-cognitive skills and early-childhood disadvantage. Children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds who exceed their parents' social achievements are pioneers. The aims of this project are to introduce this exceptional upward mobility as an alternative measure of economic success and to study its distribution and determinants. The main hypothesis is that these pioneers, apart from being intelligent, have a set of non-cognitive skills that make them successful. This will be the first study to analyse these individuals and the personality-related determinants of their life trajectories. It will contribute to understand the various pathways via which non-cognitive skills affect upward mobility, and assess their malleability during childhood or adolescence.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 12-03-2014

End Date: 30-06-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $380,364.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Labour Economics | Panel Data Analysis | Health Economics | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Human Capital Issues | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Health Economics | Human Capital Issues | Labour Economics | Panel Data Analysis | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

Related Links