We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills …. This study is among the first to examine how both cognitive and noncognitive skills measured in childhood predict …

Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … gradients in both cognitive and noncognitive skills, with bigger effect sizes for the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients. Our …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we … develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

-of-control model where managers invest in their skills. We parameterize this model with U.S. observations on managerial earnings, the …