international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic … growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation and perseverance, are also important for the performance on … respect to their underlying skills: the starting level and the decline in performance during the test. The first component can …

changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments. Statistical estimation of wage functions … between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted …

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. …

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. …

West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income …, here West Germany, shows that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns. …

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and …