Investing in Our Young People
By Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman. Social Science Research Network, 2010
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal the interplay of cognitive and noncognitive skills, and the presence of critical and sensitive periods in the life-cycle. We discuss the optimal timing of investment over the life-cycle.
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- Socioeconomic Gaps in Early Childhood Experiences (2016, background): “A large body of experimental and nonexperimental evidence demonstrates that high-quality preschool experiences can meaningfully affect children’s short- and long-term learning trajectories (Campbell et al., 2012; Cunha & Heckman, 2010; Deming, 2009; Yoshikawa et al., 2013).”
- Mental Health and Academic Success in College (2009, background): “…a is a function of family inputs, )(aFi , and schooling inputs up until age a, )(aSi , and a fixed natural ability, 0iA : ]),(),([ 0iiiaia AaSaFTT = Cunha and Heckman (2006) supplement this type of model by emphasizing that ability consists of cognitive and noncognitive skills that evolve over…”
- Value versus growth investing: Why do different investors have different styles? (2015, unknown): “, Currie (2011) and the references therein).”
- The Genetics of Investment Biases (2014, background): “Cunha and Heckman (2010) go as far as concluding that “the nature versus nurture distinction is obsolete,” and they argue that the notion that genes are moderated by environments should receive more attention in economic research.”
- The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success (2014, unknown): “Cognitive and non-cognitive learning reinforce each other (Witt, 2001, p. 30 and Cunha and Heckman, 2010).”