@article{Significance:3326,
      recid = {3326},
      author = {Dunietz, Isard},
      title = {Do Belonging and Significance Matter In Life Outcomes?},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2021-08},
      pages = {130},
      abstract = {In recent years there has been an increased appreciation  of the predictive power of non-cognitive skills to adult,  life outcomes. While these non-cognitive skills include all  sorts of personality traits, one aspect of human capital,  Intrinsic Capital (IC), has been understudied. IC is the  subjective sense of belonging and significance of  individuals to their social environments. This thesis  demonstrates that IC predicts important life outcomes  measured decades later---and that IC matters much more than  IQ and personality traits combined. What counts is the  subjective perspective of the individual. Even close,  significant adults have much diminished predictive power on  these outcomes. Since parents are so hugely influential in  the formation of IC early on in a child's life, we also  considered the effect of parenting styles on life outcomes.  Parenting styles---as seen through the eyes of  children---show predictive power to important life outcomes  decades later. These results motivated our theoretical  model to combine both traditional economic aspects with  socioemotional ones. This led to some stark predictions  which were partly corroborated by data.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3326},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3326},
}