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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288377
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278496
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331385
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288398
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317899
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317969
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343