attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are partially the result of a genetic lottery …

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … family income, parents' education, race/ethnicity and gender, being better-looking raised subsequent changes in measurements … instrumenting children's looks by their mother's, and do not work through teachers' differential treatment of better …

-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …

/out tertiary education. The effect of CBC on the externalising dimension of socio-emotional skills of children entering school is …The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational … attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present …

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …

, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background.Comparing these findings with … of the influence of family on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and …

Skills are an important predictor of labour, education, and wellbeing outcomes. Understanding the origins of skills …

Using administrative data on schools in England, we estimate an education production model of cognitive skills at the …