Turney, Kristin; McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
Non-cognitive skills in childhood and adolescence are associated with a host of outcomes in adulthood, including … educational and occupational attainment. One explanation for these associations is that poor non-cognitive skills in early … childhood interfere with the development of cognitive skills in middle childhood and adolescence. While intuitively appealing …