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School readiness and later achievement.

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Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making

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The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior

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On The Language Instinct

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The Technology of Skill Formation

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Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families

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Maternal Care, Gene Expression, and the Transmission of Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity Across Generations

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Handbook of The Economics of Education

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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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Maturational Constraints on Language Learning

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Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient

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Psychobiological Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability: Implications for Successful Adaptation to Extreme Stress

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Adolescent Brain Development: A Period of Vulnerabilities and Opportunities. Keynote Address

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Consequences of growing up poor

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Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

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Trajectories of Boys' Physical Aggression, Opposition, and Hyperactivity on the Path to Physically Violent and Nonviolent Juvenile Delinquency

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Lifetime Effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach

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Handbook of Health Economics

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Gene–environment interplay and psychopathology: multiple varieties but real effects

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Early growth and coronary heart disease in later life: longitudinal study

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Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America’s future workforce

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Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

2008 • 972 citations

The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males

2001 • 968 citations

The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post‐Secondary Schooling

2002 • 961 citations

Chapter 7 The human capital model

2000 • 874 citations

Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

2005 • 869 citations

Inequality in America: what role for human capital policies?

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The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination

1995 • 707 citations

School Readiness and the Transition to Kindergarten in the Era of Accountability.

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Genes and behavior: Nature-nurture interplay explained

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Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics.

1999 • 644 citations

Unequal chances: family background and economic success

2005 • 565 citations

Human Capital Policy

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Prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses: from randomized trials to community replication.

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The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World

2004 • 463 citations

The Fetal Matrix: Evolution, Development and Disease

2004 • 401 citations

Moving research on resilience into the 21st century: Theoretical and methodological considerations in examining the biological contributors to resilience

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The Effects of Global Severe Privation on Cognitive Competence: Extension and Longitudinal Follow‐up

2000 • 353 citations

Chapter 9 New findings on secular trends in nutrition and mortality: Some implications for population theory

1997 • 295 citations

Lessons from the Bell Curve

1995 • 239 citations

Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies

2006 • 208 citations

Chapter 20 Pre-School, Day Care, and After-School Care: Who's Minding the Kids?

2006 • 198 citations

Life Span, Health, Savings, and Productivity

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Schooling, cognitive ability and health

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The consequences of growing up poor

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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

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The roles of emotion regulation and emotion knowledge for children's academic readiness: Are the links causal?

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Child Well-Being in an Era of Welfare Reform: The Sensitivity of Transitions in Development to Policy Change.

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The temporal stability of individually tested intelligence

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The Fetal Matrix: Evolution, Development and Disease

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Social Environments and the Genetics of Aging: Advancing Knowledge of Protective Health Mechanisms

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Diabetes and the Rise of the SES Health Gradient

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Food, Economics, and Health

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