Over the past several decades, the issue of overeducation has attracted the attention of economists from many countries partly because overeducation appeared to be common and persistent. And yet, cognitive and noncognitive skills have not been systematically incorporated in the literature in spite of their importance in labor market outcomes. Using the National Education Longitudinal Study, thi...

This paper proposes a model of investments in the cognitive skills of children that is based on three features: that it takes time to build a child’s stock of cognitive skills; that parental resources evolve stochastically over time; and that parents face constraints that limit their ability to transfer resources across states of nature, across time, and across generations. These constraints di...

INTRODUCTION The cognitive functions in adults can be altered by a number of diseases, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal changes, ageing and drugs. Anaemia, through various possible mechanisms, has been suggested to result in a cognitive deterioration. AIM AND OBJECTIVE To study the effect of Hb% on cognitive skills of 100 UG medical students of Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chro...

This paper is the first to estimate the extent to which early childhood climatic shocks affect both cognitive and non-cognitive skills as measured at multiple points in childhood and adolescence. We assess the impact of rainfall observed in utero and during the first two years of life by analyzing a rich longitudinal study of rural youth in a poor province in China. Our empirical strategy entai...

Different elements of physical fitness in children have shown a declining trend during the past few decades. Cardiorespiratory fitness and motor skills have been associated with cognition, but the magnitude of this association remains unknown. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the relationship of cardiorespiratory fitness and motor skills with cognitive functions and acade...