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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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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2003

The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population surveys. While data from the 1940...

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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 economics, technology and neuroscience of human capability formation

Heckman, James Joseph - 2007

This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...

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