Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2013 - This version: November 20, 2013
end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of selfproductivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …