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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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The American family in black and white: A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality

Heckman, James J. - 2011

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

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The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children

Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 2, pp. 3-8

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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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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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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005

We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...

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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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Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm P.; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …

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Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity

Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - 2012

To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...

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The economics of child well-being

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012

This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...

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