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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

The Technology of Skill Formation

  • Flavio Cunha
  • James Heckman
American Economic Review
vol. 97, no. 2, May 2007
(pp. 31–47)
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Citation

Cunha, Flavio, and James Heckman. 2007. "The Technology of Skill Formation." American Economic Review 97 (2): 31–47. DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.2.31

JEL Classification

  • D91 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
  • I21 Analysis of Education
  • J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
  • M53 Personnel Economics: Training