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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Econometrica. 2010 May 1;78(3):883–931. doi: 10.3982/ECTA6551

Table 3.

Estimates of the Technology that Ignore Measurement Error (Model of Table 1 with No Measurement Error Corrections) Linear Anchoring on Educational Attainment (Years of Schooling) No Unobserved Heterogeneity (π), Factors Normally Distributed

Panel A: Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation
First Stage
Parameters
Second Stage
Parameters
Current Period Cognitive Skills (Self-Productivity) γ 1,C,1 0.403
(0.058)
γ 2,C,1 0.657
(0.013)
Current Period Noncognitive Skills (Cross-Productivity) γ 1,C,2 0.218
(0.105)
γ 2,C,2 0.009
(0.005)
Current Period Investments γ 1,C,3 0.067
(0.090)
γ 2,C,3 0.167
(0.018)
Parental Cognitive Skills γ 1,C,4 0.268
(0.078)
γ 2,C,4 0.047
(0.009)
Parental Noncognitive Skills γ 1,C,5 0.044
(0.050)
γ 2,C,5 0.119
(0.150)
Complementarity Parameter ϕ 1,C 0.375
(0.294)
ϕ 2,C −0.827
(0.093)
Implied Elasticity of Substitution 1/(1–ϕ1,C) 1.601 1/(1–ϕ2,C) 0.547
Variance of Shocks ηC,t δ 2 1,C 0.941
(0.048)
δ 2 2,C 0.358
(0.006)

Panel B: Technology of Noncognitive Skill Formation
First Stage
Parameters
Second Stage
Parameters
Current Period Cognitive Skills (Cross-Productivity) γ 1,N,1 0.193
(0.095)
γ 2,N,1 0.058
(0.014)
Current Period Noncognitive Skills (Self-Productivity) γ 1,N,2 0.594
(0.090)
γ 2,N,2 0.638
(0.020)
Current Period Investments γ 1,N,3 0.099
(0.296)
γ 2,N,3 0.239
(0.031)
Parental Cognitive Skills γ 1,N,4 0.114
(0.055)
γ 2,N,4 0.065
(0.015)
Parental Noncognitive Skills γ 1,N,5 0.000
(0.821)
γ 2,N,5 0.000
(0.203)
Complementarity Parameter ϕ 1,N −0.723
(0.441)
ϕ 2,N −0.716
(0.127)
Implied Elasticity of Substitution 1/(1–ϕ1,N) 0.580 1/(1–ϕ2,N) 0.583
Variance of Shocks ηN,t δ 2 1,N 0.767
(0.076)
δ 2 2,N 0.597
(0.017)

Note: Standard errors in parenthesis