The Dynamics of Skill Formation: Evidence from a Flemish Cohort Study

Abstract

Objectives or purposes In this paper, we focus on the evolution of both cognitive and noncognitive skills during adolescence, using As the focus lies on the development of skills during adolescence, we supplement the out-ofschool, family based drivers of skill differences (as modelled by Perspectives or theoretical framework Dynamics of skill formation In this paper we build on recent developments in labor economics to model the dynamics of skill formation. Carneiro and Heckman [2003] an