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The Impact of Childhood Social Skills and Self-Control Training on Economic and Noneconomic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Using Administrative Data
- Source :
- American Economic Review, American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (8), pp.2553-2579. ⟨10.1257/aer.20200224⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- American Economic Association, 2022.
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Abstract
- A childhood intervention to improve the social skills and self-control of at-risk kindergarten boys in the 1980s had positive impacts over the life course: higher trust and self-control as adolescents; increased social group membership, education, and reduced criminality as young adults; and increased marriage and employment as adults. Using administrative data, we find this intervention increased average yearly employment income by about 20 percent and decreased average yearly social transfers by almost 40 percent. We estimate that $1 invested in this program around age 8 yields about $11 in benefits by age 39, with an internal rate of return of around 17 percent. (JEL I21, I26, I28, J13, J24, J31, Z13)
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor/J.J2.J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J13 - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth
JEL: Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology/Z.Z1.Z13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Social and Economic Stratification
JEL: I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I21 - Analysis of Education
JEL: I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I26 - Returns to Education
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs/J.J3.J31 - Wage Level and Structure • Wage Differentials
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
JEL: I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I28 - Government Policy
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00028282
- Volume :
- 112
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Economic Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....23132affdfd593d5a9d094f59f83c2ac