Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in …

adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …

cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …

Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This … association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive … ability may also be affected by education so that it becomes a mediating factor in the causal chain. In this paper we estimate …

explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …