Valuing Prevention
Friday, March 23rd, 2007The link below is Miriams’ pick for March 07
Skill Formation & the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
Author: James J. Heckman
Source: www. sciencemag.org 30 June 2006
The paper linked below summarizes evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent & adult acheivement. Life cycle skill formation is a dynamic process in which early inputs strongly affect the productivity of later inputs.
Valuing Prevention

