Helene Lilleør

This paper examines – for two developing countries, Vietnam and Peru – whether disadvantaged children learn less than advantaged children when both types of children are enrolled in the same school. The paper examines six different definitions of advantage, based on household wealth, cognitive skills at age 5, gender, ethnicity (Peru only), maternal education, and nutritional status.

In this paper we look at whether conditions in early life can have persistent influence on the development of personality traits, as has been shown to be the case for health and cognitive skills. We find strong and robust evidence of persistent impacts among siblings of early life rainfall fluctuations on measures of latent personality trait, known as core self-evaluation, in adulthood.