The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School and Racial Test Score Gaps
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- Petra E. Todd & Kenneth I. Wolpin, 2007. "The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School, and Racial Test Score Gaps," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 1(1), pages 91-136.
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Keywords
Education production function; racial test score gaps; school quality; child development and cognitive achievement;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2005-01-02 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-URE-2005-01-02 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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