This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for devising policies to reduce it.
Lots of interesting discussion in this article, including reference to the gene-environment debate "Genes and environment cannot be meaningfully parsed by traditional linear models that assign unique variances to each component."
This book also seems worth a look: Rutter, M. (2006). Genes and Behavior: Nature-Nurture Interplay Explained. Oxford, UK:vBlackwell Publishers.
Heckman Working Paper
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