This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non-academic abilities and both abilities matter for labour productivity. We develop a simple model with schools run by the goverment, where individuals...

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed both with academic and non academic abilities and either ability matters for labour productivity. We show that the outcome of these abilities varies both with the degree of...