Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills

76 Pages Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last revised: 16 Apr 2023

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Marta Favara

University of Oxford - Department of International Development

Catherine Porter

Lancaster University - Department of Economics

Alan Sánchez

Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE)

Abstract

We estimate a dynamic model of multidimensional human capital development from childhood through adolescence and into early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures of cognitive and socio-emotional skills and a latent factor structure to estimate flexible skills production functions between the ages of 8 and 22. We focus particularly on socio-emotional skill development, and provide the first estimates of such skill production over such a long period in a developing country context. In the last period, when individuals reach adulthood at age 22, we show that socio-emotional skills can be separated into two distinct domains - social skills and task effectiveness skills- which develop differently especially with regard to time use and cross-productivity with cognition. We find that individuals with higher task effectiveness are less likely to have engaged in risky behaviours such as smoking, taking drugs, and engaging with gangs.

Keywords: dynamic factor analysis, child development, human capital, socio-emotional skills

JEL Classification: C38, J13, J24, O15, O54

Suggested Citation

Name, No and Favara, Marta and Porter, Catherine and Sánchez, Alan, Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills. IZA Discussion Paper No. 13804, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3718184 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3718184

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Marta Favara

University of Oxford - Department of International Development ( email )

United Kingdom

Catherine Porter

Lancaster University - Department of Economics ( email )

Lancaster LA1 4YX, LA1 4YX
United Kingdom

Alan Sánchez

Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) ( email )

Av. Almirante Grau #915
Lima 4
Peru

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