Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
Abstract
This paper summarizes evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent, and adult achievement. Life cycle skill formation is a dynamic process in which early inputs strongly affect the productivity of later inputs.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- June 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.1128898
- Bibcode:
- 2006Sci...312.1900H
- Keywords:
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- SOCIOLOGY