Childhood self control, emotional stability, persistence, and motivation have long term effects on health and labour market outcomes in adulthood …

„Longitudinal studies showed that childhood self control, emotional stability, persistence, and motivation have long term effects on health and labour market outcomes in adulthood. Some studies even found that these sorts of attitudes and behaviours are stronger predictors of long-term outcomes like college attendance, earnings, home ownership and retirement savings than test scores.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Beyond Academic Learning (2021), S. 22.