The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation
- Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, and American Bar Foundation, 750 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
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Edited by Richard A. Easterlin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and approved May 1, 2007 (received for review April 30, 2007)
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Fig. 1.Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth average standardized score for Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Math by family permanent income quartile. [Reproduced with permission from ref. 25 (Copyright 2006, North-Holland).]
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Fig. 2.Health and income for children and adults, U.S. national health interview survey 1986–1995. Reprinted with permission from ref. 27.
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Fig. 3.Probability of daily smoking by age 18, males by decile of cognitive and noncognitive factor. The highest decile of cognitive and noncognitive ability is “10.” The lowest decile is “1.” [Reproduced with permission from ref. 10 (Copyright 2006, Univ of Chicago Press).]
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Fig. 4.Ratio of early to late investment in human capital as a function of the skill multiplier for different values of complementarity. [Reproduced with permission from ref. 25 (Copyright 2006, North–Holland).]
Footnotes
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- © 2007 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
