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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

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Changing Returns to Education in Portugal during the 1980s and Early 1990s: OLS and quantile regression estimators

Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro T.; Vieira, José A.C. - 1999

This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s andearly 1990s. The main findings indicate that the returns to education have increased,particularly after joining the European Union in 1986. Since this occurred along with anincrease in the level of...

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and … an important route for students from a lower socioeconomic background. …

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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010

This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

Hartog, Joop; Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and … an important route for students from lower socioeconomic background. …

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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - 2005

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - 2010

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baselinepretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education

Hartog, Joop; Serrano, Luis Diaz - 2002

We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...

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Compensating wage differentials for schooling risk in Denmark

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2003

In this paper we test for risk compensation in wages using Danish panel data. With the conviction that the type of education is as important as the education length, we use a very detailed description of the type of education reached by the Danish population to calculate different measures of...

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Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education: A Cross-Section Test for Spain

Hartog, Joop; Serrano, Luis Diaz - 2002

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