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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Schennach, Susanne - 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 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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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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The GED

Heckman, James Joseph; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, … - 2010

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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Earnings functions and rates of return

Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2008

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

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Schools, skills, and synapses

Heckman, James Joseph - 2008

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, … - 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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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James Joseph; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009

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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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James Joseph; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzúa, Sergio - 2009

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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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph; Mullen, … - 2003

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling...

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