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Using the Young Lives longitudinal panel dataset on youth born in 1994 in Peru, this paper examines the development of cognitive and socio-emotional skills between the ages of 8 and 22. The authors seek to understand the critical role that human capital development plays in the intergenerational transfer of poverty and inequality. The authors show that socio-emotional skills can be divided into two distinct domains – social skills and task effectiveness skills.
Using the Young Lives longitudinal panel dataset on youth born in 1994 in Peru, this paper examines the development of cognitive and socio-emotional skills between the ages of 8 and 22. The authors seek to understand the critical role that human capital development plays in the intergenerational transfer of poverty and inequality. The authors show that socio-emotional skills can be divided into two distinct domains – social skills and task effectiveness skills.