Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
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- 30 June 2006
- journal article
- special perspectives
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 312 (5782), 1900-1902
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1128898
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.Keywords
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