Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71358 
Year of Publication: 
2010
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UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP10/04
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University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper estimates the relationship between handedness and social adjustment. In addition to binary measures of hand preference, we also use a continuous measure of hand skill. Outcomes at ages 7, 11 and 16 are studied. Using a semi-parametric estimator it is shown that non-righthandedness (as hand-preference) is associated with poorer social adjustment but this effect disappears as the individuals age. The continuous measure of hand skill has a non-monotonic effect on social adjustment with poorer social adjustment at the extreme values of the continuum. Poorer social adjustment in childhood has been shown to predict poorer socio-economic outcomes later in life.
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