Cognitive Skills Beyond Childhood
利用英国1958年出生队列数据，研究了从童年到50岁的认知技能发展，发现童年认知技能持续影响成年，且16岁时的认知技能比50岁时更能预测工资。
Abstract This paper documents how cognitive skills develop beyond childhood. Using unique data from a British birth cohort followed since 1958, I link cognitive skills in childhood to cognitive skills at 50. I establish five facts from these data: First, childhood cognitive skills persist strongly into adulthood. Second, wages at 50 are better predicted by cognitive skills at 16 than by cognitive skills at 50. Third, higher education predicts higher cognitive skills and wages. Fourth, occupational choice predicts wages, but not cognitive skills at 50. Fifth, periods out of the labour market depreciate wages, but not cognitive skills at 50.