TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blomeyer, Dorothea
AU  - Coneus, Katja
AU  - Laucht, Manfred
AU  - Pfeiffer, Friedhelm
        TI  - Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement
        PY  - 2008/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3692
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3692
        AB  - This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological cohort study following the long-term outcome of early risk factors. Results indicate that initial risk conditions cumulate and that differences in basic abilities increase during development. Self-productivity rises in the developmental process and complementarities are evident. Noncognitive abilities promote cognitive abilities and social achievement. There is remarkable stability in the distribution of the economic and socio-emotional home resources during the early life cycle. This is presumably a major reason for the evolution of inequality in human development.
        KW  - initial conditions
KW  - home resources
KW  - intelligence
KW  - persistence
KW  - social competencies
KW  - school achievement
        ER  -