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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 identification 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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induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
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emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
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This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
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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 baseline-pretreatment 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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complementarities in skill formation. Investments in the human capital of children should expand relative to investment in older workers …
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This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …
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