# Non-Cognitive Skills and Labor Market Expectations: Survey and Experimental Evidence from French Vocational Students
**Date de l'événement :** 02/07/2024
* Publié le 02/07/2024

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## Auteur(s)
Lewin Nolden

## Direction
Pierre Cahuc, Clément de Chaisemartin

## Description
**Ce mémoire est issu de la sélection des meilleurs mémoires du master d’économie de l'année 2023-2024 :**  
  
Abstract  
  
In 2022 and 2023, the French employment agency intervened in vocational schools to address students’ low employment rates when entering the labor market. This study analyzes the spillover effects of this intervention on students’ expectations and non-cognitive skills. Expectations and non-cognitive skills are elicited from vocational students currently enrolled in their final year who have not yet received the intervention themselves. The results show moderate changes in students’ expectations and significant increases in non-cognitive skills, with scores on four out of five personality traits and locus of control rising by around 5% of a standard deviation per intervention year. The survey further reveals that non-cognitive skills strongly predict students’ expectations and partly explain the gender expectations gap. This is crucial to better target students in the future and for understanding differential outcomes for male and female vocational students in the labor  market. The study also addresses the challenges posed by over-all and differential attrition and discusses the impact of the limited number of individual-level control variables. These considerations are essential to contextualize the unexpectedly large effect estimates and to understand the broader implications of the intervention.  
  
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