Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
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- Eric I. Knudsen & James J. Heckman & Judy L. Cameron & Jack P. Shonkoff, 2006. "Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce," NBER Working Papers 12298, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
child development; early experience; economic productivity; critical and sensitive periods; brain development;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2006-07-15 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2006-07-15 (Public Economics)
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