Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-emotional Skills

Mark Mitchell, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter and Alan Sánchez
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alan Sanchez

No 364076718, Working Papers from Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department

Abstract: We estimate a dynamic model of socio-emotional skill development between ages 8-22 for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. At age 8 there is no wealth gradient, in contrast to cognitive skills. However, by age 12 inequalities emerge and widen through age 19, driven by differential household investments, and cross-productivity with cognitive skills. In early adulthood, we separate socio-emotional skills into two distinct domains – social skills and task effectiveness - that evolve differently, and are differently correlated with risky behaviours such as smoking or taking drugs. Unequal initial household resources perpetuate inequality across generations through cognitive and task effectiveness skills.

Keywords: Human capital; child development; dynamic factor analysis; socio-emotional skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 J13 J24 O15 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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