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Title: The Evolution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Over the Life Cycle of the Child
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1. Cunha, Flavio
Heckman, James J.
The Evolution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Over the Life Cycle of the Child
Presented: Chicago, IL, American Economic Association Meetings, January 2007.
Also: http://jenni.uchicago.edu/papers/Dugger/evo-cognon_ho_2007-01-03a_mms.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Development; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Human Capital; I.Q.; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Life Cycle Research; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Skill Formation; Skills

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper uses simple economic models of skill formation to organize a large body of evidence on the development of skills in children in economics, psychology, education and neuroscience.

Summary:

  • Cognitive and noncognitive skills evolve over the life cycle of the child. The correlation across these skills increases with age.
  • Noncognitive skills foster the accumulation of cognitive skills.
  • Family environments and investments causally affect both cognitive and noncognitive skills.
  • Investments are more effective for cognitive skills in the early years.
  • They are more effective in the later years for noncognitive skills.
  • Strong evidence of self-productivity and cross self-productivity.
Bibliography Citation
Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman. "The Evolution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Over the Life Cycle of the Child." Presented: Chicago, IL, American Economic Association Meetings, January 2007.