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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...

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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...

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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Conti, Gabriella - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....

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The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...

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Personality Psychology and Economics

Almlund, Mathilde - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1998

aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

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Schools, Skills, and Synapses

Heckman, James J. - 2008

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

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The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

García, Jorge Luis - 2016

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

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Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004

determined bequests from parents that can be used to finance schooling, uncertainty in college completion related to differences … structure, we analyze tuition subsidies such as exist in most public colleges, alternative forms of need-based aid, income … more intergenerational mobility and greater income equality. But, the various policies have quite different implications …

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