The Nobel Prize in Economics shows the importance of non-cognitive skills during EPGE's event

The Graduate School of Economics (EPGE) carried out on May 7 the lecture ?Hard Evidence on Soft Skills?, with the Nobel Prize in Economics James Heckman. In his speech, Heckman demonstrated how non-cognitive skills developed during childhood and adolescence are decisive in the labor market and social life, and how such skills can be measured so as to identify the school's life stages when there must be investments in those types of skills. The event, coordinated by professor Aloisio Araújo, included a roundtable with the Minister for Education, Aloizio Mercadante, and the municipal secretary for Education of Rio de Janeiro city, Claudia Costin, on the current situation of child education in Brazil and its consequences for education in general in the country. ?Primary Education is the foundation that must support the system and pave the way for the Brazilian development in its weakest areas and that are key, such as Exact and Biological Sciences?, emphasized the Minister. Also attending the roundtable were FGV's President, professor Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, the director of Academic Integration, professor Antonio Freitas, EPGE's director, professor Rubens Penha Cysne, and the event's coordinator, EPGE's professor Aloisio Araújo. The economist and Nobel Prize James Heckman attended another two events at FGV headquarters, in 2009 and 2011, at seminars on early childhood.