Toward an Understanding of the Returns to Cognitive Skill Across Cohorts

We thank Katharine Abraham, Dan Black, Melissa Kearney, Richard Murphy, Nolan Pope, and seminar participants at the University of Chicago, George Washington University, SUNY-Buffalo, UIUC, University of Cambridge, George Mason University, SED 2023 annual meeting, and the World Bank for valuable comments. We are grateful to Rosella Gardecki, Mark Loewenstein, Randy Olsen, Donna Rothstein, and other researchers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at the Ohio State University for their help with the data. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• March 5, 2024