Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

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ESTIMATING THE TECHNOLOGY OF COGNITIVE AND NONCOGNITIVE SKILL
FORMATION

Flavio Cunha

James Heckman

Susanne Schennach

WORKING PAPER 15664

http://www.nber.org/papers/w15664

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

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February 2010

This paper was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (SES-0241858, SES-
0099195, SES-0452089, SES-0752699); the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (R01HD43411); the J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Foundation; the Susan Buffett Foundation;
the American Bar Foundation; the Children's Initiative, a project of the Pritzker Family Foundation
at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago; and PAES, supported by
the Pew Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health|National Institute on Aging (P30
AG12836), the Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Security and the NICHD R24
HD-0044964 at the University of Pennsylvania. We thank the editor and three anonymous referees
for very helpful comments. We have also benefited from comments received from Orazio Attanasio,

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