Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children

JJ Heckman - Science, 2006 - science.org
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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.
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