TY  - JOUR
AU  - Cunha,Flavio
AU  - Heckman,James
TI  - The Technology of Skill Formation
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12840
PY  - 2007
Y2  - January 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12840
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12840.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Flavio Cunha
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
160 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297
Tel: 215/898-5652
E-Mail: fcunha@sas.upenn.edu

James J. Heckman
Department of Economics
The University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-0634
Fax: 773/702-8490
E-Mail: jjh@uchicago.edu
AB  - This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity, dynamic complementarity and skill multipliers. Lessons are drawn for the design of new policies to alleviate the consequences of the accident of birth that is a major source of human inequality.
ER  -