This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and
noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately …

This article distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development
and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of …

This article examines the long‐term impacts on health and healthy behaviour of two of the
oldest and most widely cited US early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of …

Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education,
focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Acknowledged …

We investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence the evolution of play
toward Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We find that more cognitively …

This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement
and empirical importance of personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause …

Este artigo analisa o Programa Nacional da Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) como uma Política
Pública Saudável (PPS). A Lei n. 11.947/2009 estabeleceu que os Entes Federados …

We analyze the economic returns to post-secondary degrees in Chile. We posit a schooling
decision model with unobserved ability, degree-specific tuition costs, and earnings. We use …

Factor structure models are widely used in economics to extract latent variables, such as
personality traits, and to measure their impact on outcomes of interest. The identification and …

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of
moments (SMM) estimators for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate …