ter Weel, Bas; Borghans, Lex; Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills|personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
