Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34936 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3692
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological cohort study following the long-term outcome of early risk factors. Results indicate that initial risk conditions cumulate and that differences in basic abilities increase during development. Self-productivity rises in the developmental process and complementarities are evident. Noncognitive abilities promote cognitive abilities and social achievement. There is remarkable stability in the distribution of the economic and socio-emotional home resources during the early life cycle. This is presumably a major reason for the evolution of inequality in human development.
Subjects: 
Initial conditions
home resources
intelligence
persistence
social competencies
school achievement
JEL: 
D87
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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